DescriptionSS Keewatin is a passenger liner that once sailed between Port Arthur/Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) in Ontario, Canada. She carried passengers between these ports for the Canadian Pacific Railway's Great Lakes steamship service. Keewatin also carried packaged freight goods for the railway at these ports. Keewatin is one of the largest of the remaining Edwardian era passenger steamers left in the world, along with Nomadic, lake steamer TSS Earnslaw (1913), (currently still operational in New Zealand), and surviving ex-Manly ferry MV Baragoola (1922) (out of service held in Australia). Keewatin is a passenger liner that when built, measured 3,856 gross register tons (GRT) and 2,470 NRT.[2][3] The ship has a length between perpendiculars of 102.6 metres (336 ft 7 in) and a beam of 13.3 metres (43 ft 8 in) with a draught of 7.2 metres (23 ft 7 in). The vessel was powered by four coal-fired scotch boilers, each 4.3 metres (14 ft 1 in) by 3.4 metres (11 ft), providing steam to a quadruple expansion steam engine turning one screw creating 3,000 horsepower (2,200 kW) nominal. This gave the ship a maximum speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) and a cruising speed of 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph). The ship had 108 staterooms with berths for 288 passengers. The vessel was manned by 86 officers and crew. Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland as yard number 453, Keewatin was launched on 6 July 1907 and completed in September.The vessel sailed on her maiden voyage docking at Lévis, Quebec to be halved because the canals below Lake Erie, specifically the Welland Canal could not handle ships as long as Keewatin. The ship was reassembled at Buffalo, New York, where she resumed her voyage under her own power to begin service at Owen Sound, Ontario. See Wikipedia link below for more details.