Russel Brothers Limited OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO Steelcraft Boat Builders
| Grouse
Canadian List of Shipping 1956: Grouse [C.190380] registered at Toronto; built at Owen Sound in 1949. 24' 8 x 7' 5 x 2' 9; 4 g.t.; 3 n.t.; 20 hp. Owned by Long Lac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Toronto. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug Grouse [C.190380] registered at Toronto. Built at Owen Sound in 1949. 25'; 4 g.t. Transport Canada List 2003: Owned by Kimberley-Clark of Canada Ltd., Longlac, Ontario.
Longlac Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. eventually was purchased by Kimberly-Clark Ltd. By 2007, Buchanan owned the Mill in Longlac and therefore owned Pigeon and Glidalong. The mill shop was right beside the Russel Winchboat Pigeon and about two hundred feet from the Glidalong. Longlac boats included a 15' dozer boat named Longlac Junior, winch boats Alec, Glidalong, Grouse, Pigeon and Tauno, apparently only one warping tug Longlac Senior, and full sized tugs Lacalong and Tugalong. |
RBF notes: Privately owned (Longlac, ON July 13, 2003)
Grouse (right) and Ernst M., Longlac c. 1972. Photo by Brian Westhouse.
Brian Westhouse notes (Dec. 21, 2017): "I took this picture about 1972, I was on a CN passenger train when I went through there about that time."
Grouse and Ernst M., Longlac. Photo by Maurice Spooner. Gerry Ouderkirk Collection.
Grouse (right) and Ernst M., Longlac. Photo courtesy Don Loponen.
Don notes: The Ernst M was used mostly for making up rafts of logs close to Longlac
for the bigger boats (Lacalong and Tugalong) to pull down the lake.
For more Russel exhibits visit Owen Sound Marine & Rail Museum 1165 1st Ave West, Owen Sound, ON N4K 4K8
(519) 371-3333  http://marinerail.com |
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