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KEEWATIN FIRST ANNUAL CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT BONAIRE GOLF CLUB, COLDWATER, ON – FRIDAY JUNE 7, 2013        4 Person Scramble Format Shotgun Start @ 12:00 Noon Registration 10;30 AM – 12:00 PM Burger Luncheon + Steak Dinner & Dessert (Vegetarian meal available on request) Price is $ 140.00 per Person   GREAT PRIZES – MULTIPLE [...]

  What a great day for the opening of the KEEWATIN. What started as a cold and miserable morning cleared out at noon and by 2pm the sun was in full array and we had several hundred people gathered at the Park at 311 Talbot Street where KEEWATIN calls home. A surprise  guest was 84 [...]

IT IS FINALLY HERE!   Keewatin will open for her first working season in Port McNicoll since 1965 next Saturday May 11th 2013. It has been a long cold winter, but the volunteers have prevailed in being able to welcome paying visitors onto the last surviving Edwardian Steamship in the world, The SS KEEWATIN.  Built [...]

FRIENDS OF KEEWATIN ARE LOOKING FOR…. We are in need of some articles to stage our staterooms aboard the ship.               The types of items we are looking for are “VINTAGE” ERA …….. 1907 – 1965 Vintage clothing including: ∎Summer clothes very much needed men’s & women’s      [...]

                  Requesting your support! Our sister in Lake Michigan needs help with a relentless group of environmentalist. They don’t want the last coal burning ship in North America ( 1957) to distribute the coal waste into the Great Lakes. What is left of burnt coal is charcoal. [...]

I realize that the readership of the blog is world wide. However, having said that I am asking for help today because we seriously need volunteers to get open this spring. If you live near Port McNicoll or can get here this message is directed at you!  It has been a very cold winter and [...]

Well Keewatin fans, it has been a long winter. Even though spring came last week there is still snow and ice and barely livable temperatures. So much for the Groundhogs. They were all dead wrong this year for an early spring prediction. I never liked those furry rats any way! Winter or not, the Keewatin [...]

Well dear readers… It is now into February and I have been remiss in sending out any missives about the Scottish lady and me travelling in Paradise. Partly it was because of laziness. But I do think it is only fair to let you know where Capt Rick goes when the ice closes in on [...]

I give 2012 an A as in apple! It hardly seems any time at all since last New Year’s when the Scottish lady and I spent the afternoon in beautiful Saugatuck Mi with RJ Peterson on his birthday New Years eve. Over hot dogs at the COVE ( best hot dogs in North America and [...]

As we get projects to the point of seeing the end result we thought it would be great to share them with interested parties and “Friends of Keewatin”. Just to prove we are not hybernating in the winter..Click the pictures to make them larger….   This is just one of many winter projects on the [...]