Somewhere in the middle to Niagara. Exactly halfway home from Niagara to Toronto.
Le Progress - it was the name of this ferry (yes, originally it was a banal steam!) Built on one of the shipyards of Quebec in the distant 1914. For a long time he had served faithfully, rolling honest folk along the river Sv.Lourensa. For the world exhibition Expo 67, held in Montreal, the owner turned his ferry beauty- karakku , for what had to sheathe the entire body of the tree and build on the mast-shmachty or whatever ship be laid. Thus was born Le Grande Hermine - a copy of the ship, which Jacques Cartier back in 1535 instead of Asia, sailed to Canada.
After the exhibition, craft went to Quebec City, where stood in the pond three decades. In the late 20 th century, the owner of the semi-abandoned and replaced by a replica went to Ontario, in order to gain new life. But, alas, something happened in the life of the new owner and the project was abandoned. Le Grande Hermine moored in the bay of Jordan, where the slowly rotting itself, while in 2003 some вандалы не сожгли ее до тла...
Hear the rime of the Ancient mariner
See his eyes as he stops one of three
Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares
of the sea.
And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and
the Mariner tells his tale.
Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
To a place where nobody's been
Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
Hailed in God's name,
hoping good luck it brings.
And the ship sails on, back to the north
Through the fog and ice and
the albatross follows on
The mariner kills the bird of good omen
His shipmates cry against what he's done
But when the fog clears, they justify him
And make themselves part of the crime.
Sailing on and on and North across the sea
Sailing on and on and North 'til all is calm.
The albatross begins with its vengeance
A terrible curse a thirst has begun
His shipmates blame the bad luck on the Mariner
About his neck, the dead bird is hung.
And the curse goes on and on and on at sea,
And the thirst goes on and on for them and me...
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Upd.: That, incidentally, a couple of pictures of glorious youth, nearly a century ship. Snapshots from the Expo-67. © Lillian Seymour
Well, here Le Grande Hermina arrives in Quebec City after the show to begin the sad part of our history. © Jocelyn Paquet.
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