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Daily Journal Record Centennial Edition, Friday, Sept. 1, 1967 OLD SALT Captain Jam es Andrew, who built the first Canada' s Cup win ner in his Oakville shipyard, m oved his fam ily into a new home at 5 William St. in 1891. Shipbuilding Tradition Lives O n Shipbuilding in Oakville is an spurred him to found a village the need to conduct his business ment and workers from his Bur in his own ships. lington Bay shipyard to The Six teen. self. He was already the owner of But Oakville and Burlington Col. William Chisholm was al w ere too far up the lake to at five schooners plying the lakes NAVY STREET Chisholm' s shipyard was loca when he bought the land for the ready a successful merchanttract a sizeable schooner trade new village in 1827 and before ted just above the last big im porter in the Burlington Bay area when the potential of the during the short sailing season, the ice closed navigation that curve in The Sixteen, just be mouth of the Sixteen as a port and so Chisholm had early seen year he had m oved the equip low the end of Navy Street, where the w ater was deep close to shore. Industry as old as the town it here. The first ship laid down there was a 50-ton schooner built to the sam e plans as his " Mohawk Chief" , and was christened " The JTrafalgar" since it was the first |vessel built in the township. The second was the " Lady Colboum e" , named after the govem or-general's wife, followed soon b y the " Mississauga Chief" . Other shipbuilders soon set up on the Sixteen, am ong them John and Melancthon Simpson and John Potter. But by the time these vessels were built there w ere already steam vessels on the lakes, and ] by the early sixties the trans formation to steam was almost complete. Are your floors and furniture beginningto Didn't C lean His Clothes In 1867 But, We Can Clean His Grandson's Today! IN JUST ONE HOUR COMPLETE SHIRT LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANING ON THE PREMISES R E P U T A T I O N . . . For Quality Dry Cleaning KNOWLEDGE . . O f Advanced Methods Dry Cleaning Contact this man now T IM B E R G O N E Also, the supplies o f timber in the area were alm ost exhausted by this time, and the town's master shipbuilders were either converting to the construction of iron ships at other ports, m ov ing to the tim ber areas of the upper G reat Lakes, or turning their carpentry skill to other building jobs. One o f the last vessels built in shipyards on The Sixteen was the " White Oak" , built by Dun can Chisholm for his brother Captain George, and launched on Confederation Day, July 1, 1867. The schooners, killed by the laws of econom ics, are gone now, but, surprisingly, there are m ore sails in Oakville harbor and in Bronte harbor today than there ever w ere in the days of he tall ships. The great local emphasis on sum mer boating has not only pro duced som e of Canada's best sailors, but it has also provided O A K V IL L E - B U IL T S C H O O N E R " W H IT E O A K ' a booming market for boat Launched on nation's first Dominion Day builders, and Oakville' s ship wrights are again com ing into their own. built by have turned up on boats as far other racing craft One of Dodds' earlier inven Bruckmann, was launched at tions was a type of hovercraft away as Spain. WORLD FAMOUS Metro Marine. that was successfully tested on Many, like Dick Milman, Eric RED JACKET Bruckman and Hugh Dodds, are Metro Marine, located at the Lake Ontario. His latest innova The Red Jacket, a sloop built becom ing known in boating cir by E ric Bruckmann in his shop mouth o f both the Sixteen and tion in boating is the Flying Cat cles around the world for their on Wallace Street, has set the Twelve Mile Creeks, is one of Cruiser -- a two-ton, 31 foot skill. best-known maintenance houseboat that rides on a three racing world on its ear since its the About 30 years ago, Dick Mil first season on the water, when shops for both sail and power inch cushion of air and can hit man was the only boat builder in it won 12 o f 15 races on Lake boats on the lake. Boats from as top speeds of 35 m iles per hour. Holland who m ade kayaks -- Ontario last sum m er and two of far across the lake as Rochester A United States firm has al which were very popular for rac five in the stiff Southern Ocean have spent the winter in Metro ing in Europe. This sum m er at Racing Circuit last winter. Marine's repair and storage ready taken an interest in the boat, and m ay place a standing Milman's Speers Road shop, his yard. The early success of Red Jac order for 50 Flying Cats a year workshop turned the 12 Snipes Recently, fibre glass has be used at the Pan Am erican Games ket has led to other jobs for com e a very popular material in -- a large enough order that all Bruckman. This spring, one of other operations in the Forsythe in Wimipeg. pleasure boat construction -- and E urw ?. This sum mer at /Mifr- last ,year' s crew mem bers on the Aero Marine specializes in boats Street plant would have to be Tw<? months o f thei^aumtr atl RedJ Jacket ordered a boat call and other sailing vessels of this shut down to meet it. his Oitario Yachts waT. fSken up> ed Bnferno' --t the% largest fiSrtr m aterial. Dodds m astery o f fibre glaist .glasj; boat ever butilt in Carada. buiildng a 31 foot,' 5.5 metre Local sailors call Hug Dodds has been on display for millionsInf>mo was launictud last sailboat that will com pete in a wizard with fibre glass -- if of visitors to Expo '67. Aero next yea r's Olym oics. The de spring and is also headed for Florida and the SORC this win it can be built with fibre glass Marine built the ultra-modern sign of the boat's mahogany hull Ontario Pavilion for the big fair. ter. During August, Avanti, an Dodds can do it. was so critical that only planks a day could be placed, Milman said. 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