We were so concerned with getting the "Ship of the Month" article (ALGOMA, ALBERTA and ATHABASCA) ready for the February issue that we completely overlooked giving credit to the one person without whose assistance that story could not have been prepared. To R.T. "Scotty" McCannell go our thanks for the use of the clippings from the Glasgow Herald which formed the backbone of the article and which were really our reason for starting into the whole thing. We had not originally intended telling the whole history of the ships, but the clippings gave us such a good jumping-off point that our pen just kept on writing. Scotty also let us have the photo of ALGOMA on her maiden lake voyage that accompanied our feature.

We have already lined up a few more items from the McCannell collection for features in upcoming issues, so keep watching.

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