Collingwood, ON: Collingwood Ship Building

(Satellite)

While reading the CarlzBoats Blog, I noticed that a lot of the ships built for the St. Lawrence Seaway trade where built in this shipyard.

Brian Westhouse Flickr
Shipyards Collingwood, Ontario
unused postcard
Aerial view of Shipyards
published by Peterborough Post Card Co.
H.R.Oakman
[Click the "next arrow" because it shows a boat launching.]

Marine Historical Society of Detroit posted

Aerial view of Collingwood Shipyards, circa 1959. Unknown photographer. Peter VanderLinden collection/MHSD.

Largest vessel floating is the Menihek Lake, under construction.  Bricoldoc at bottom of photo. Tug, the other N.M. Patterson and Sons vessels, and the new hull under construction on the ways, are not identified on the photo.

Andy Torrence posted
En Garde, x4, counting all the shipyard cranes.  Algoport launch, May 7, 1979, Collingwood Shipyards.  Photo by Fritz Schuller, I believe.  Andy Torrence collection.

Chris Turner posted
Collingwood, ON….1972. The Algoway.

pinterest from a collection
Old Ontario Series posted
Mike Harlan shared

Unfortunately, when reading about more modern ships built for the St. Lawrence Seaway trade, they were built overseas. The most modern ones were built in China and used the Panama Canal to get to the St. Lawrence River. The satellite image confirmed that this shipyard is now closed.

When I asked when it closed in a Facebook posting, I got the answers:
Carl Burkett Dennis DeBruler Collingwood was closed in 1986 and the last ship they built was the 736’ gearless bulk carrier PATERSON which after being bought by CSL, became known as PINEGLEN. Her story:
http://carlzboats.blogspot.ca/2015/11/gearless-bulk-carrier-pineglen_10.html
Sal Greco Carl Burkett the last ship was the ice breaker Sir John A McDonald. [This boat may have also been named Sir Wilfrid Laurier.]