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[quote="Jared"]The article did say that the museum did not attract much attention or visitors for that matter. Most of the items would probably end up in a larger museum or end up in private collections. I would say the Canadian Govt has more stringent laws for protecting it's history than the US does.[/quote]

I would hope that those 50,000 ship plans and the like would not end up in the garbage, if they are heading there I would hope someone here would take it upon themselves to rescue them.

Shame as well that Toronto rejected the Seaway Queen when she was offered to them.

The article did say that the museum did not attract much attention or visitors for that matter. Most of the items would probably end up in a larger museum or end up in private collections. I would say the Canadian Govt has more stringent laws for protecting it's history than the US does.

We barely try to preserve any kind of lakes history as is , like we could not even save one `60s built laker for display , and seems that every endeavour to preserve anything to do with Canadian lakes shipping history usually comes up short . Now this story about the Conservatives selling off the crown land owned museum site is pretty well ....what else is new ??!

See the link for the article that the museum is threatened by the Federal Government threatening to sell off the land for development.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-is-ottawa-sinking-kingstons-marine-museum/article22515252/