Thursday, June 11, 2020

Good afternoon. Since there’s not much going on here I thought I would delight you with an old story of the Lake Winnipeg fish freighters. 

Growing up in Winnipeg, we lived on Kildonan Drive and dad’s boat was tied up at the dock behind our house. The big Suzanne E, an 87 foot fish hauling freighter cruised by our dock often, taking its’ catch  to the Alexander docks (downtown Winnipeg) for processing. It caused a great uproar as it threw a big wake and often snapped the lines on our 40’ boat, the Ar-Joy.

Well, Lake Winnipeg has a history of battering boats and the Suzanne E was no match in 1965. 

Here’s another Lake Winnipeg storm ... before my time but representative of the type of weather the lake is known for.