DCHP-3

Garden Island schooner

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sturdily built, schooner-rigged vessel made in the shipyards at Garden Island, off Kingston, Ontario, and used in the timber trade during the latter part of the nineteenth century, especially on the Great Lakes.

Quotations

1945
It was said that a Garden Island schooner could be recognized by the weight of her spars, and especially by the long "doublings" between lower masts and topmasts.