User:Geo Swan/SS Armour

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The wooden-hulled, passenger steamship Armour provided service on Ontario's Magnetawan River, from 1906 until she burnt to her waterline in the early 1930s.^[1] Sources differ over when the ship was launched. An official historic plaque says she was launched in 1906.^[2] Another source says Armour was the first passenger vessel on the Magnetawan, and was launched in the 1880s.

The Magnetawan River flows through Armour Township, named after a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada who died in 1903, a few years before the ship was launched.

Specifications^[1]
displacement	191 tons
length	90 feet (27 m)
beam	15 feet (4.6 m)

References

^ ^a ^b "History of the Magnetawan River". Municipality of Magnetawan. Retrieved 2018-09-07. She weighed 191 tons, was 90' long, 15' wide. She made daily trips to Ahmic Harbour after the arrival of the morning train, dispersing passengers, freight and mail at her many stops and taking on wood for fuel along the way. Captain Tom Kennedy was probably her last captain; she burned at the dock in Burk's Falls around the he moved to Loring in 1930 putting an end to the steamboat era on the Magnetawan River. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Magnetawan River Steam Navigation". Ontario Historic Plaques. Retrieved 2018-09-07. The first steamboat on the Magnetawan River was the 10 m "Pioneer", built in 1879 for service between Magnetawan and Burk's Falls, a distance of 32 km. In 1886 a lock was completed at Magnetawan enabling steamer service to be extended an additional 16 km to Ahmic Harbour. Other steamers came into service, notably the "Wenonah" (1886), "Glenrosa" (1891), "Wanita" (1896), "Glenada" (1904) and "Armour" (1906). These and others provided the only efficient means of transporting passengers and freight from this landing at the railhead in Burk's Falls to the scattered settlements along the river. However, the advent of the automobile doomed these colourful craft, the last of which, the "Mike", ceased operation about 1934. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[HistMagnetawan-1] "History of the Magnetawan River". Municipality of Magnetawan. Retrieved 2018-09-07. She weighed 191 tons, was 90' long, 15' wide. She made daily trips to Ahmic Harbour after the arrival of the morning train, dispersing passengers, freight and mail at her many stops and taking on wood for fuel along the way. Captain Tom Kennedy was probably her last captain; she burned at the dock in Burk's Falls around the he moved to Loring in 1930 putting an end to the steamboat era on the Magnetawan River. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[ontarioplaquesMagnetawanRiverSteamNavigation-2] "Magnetawan River Steam Navigation". Ontario Historic Plaques. Retrieved 2018-09-07. The first steamboat on the Magnetawan River was the 10 m "Pioneer", built in 1879 for service between Magnetawan and Burk's Falls, a distance of 32 km. In 1886 a lock was completed at Magnetawan enabling steamer service to be extended an additional 16 km to Ahmic Harbour. Other steamers came into service, notably the "Wenonah" (1886), "Glenrosa" (1891), "Wanita" (1896), "Glenada" (1904) and "Armour" (1906). These and others provided the only efficient means of transporting passengers and freight from this landing at the railhead in Burk's Falls to the scattered settlements along the river. However, the advent of the automobile doomed these colourful craft, the last of which, the "Mike", ceased operation about 1934. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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