Help ID'g a straight decker from old photos

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After zooming the image it is indeed the Mantadoc. The name is definitely too long to have been the Vandoc which had remained idle after 1991. This ship was a common sight on the St. Clair River throughout its career.

The vessel's history can be found on the boatnerd site here:

https://boatnerd.com/manitoba-2/
badger

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the captain on the mv mantadoc i believe his father was chief engineer on the ss paterson, or at the least related.
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Appears to be the Mantadoc, built in 1967 at Collingwood Shipyards, Collingwood, Ontario.
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Looks like the Mantadoc
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It’s Paterson steamship lines. Defunct many years now. Can’t say which boat.
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MV Mantadoc of the Paterson fleet. Built in 1967 at Collingwood ON
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Help ID'g a straight decker from old photos

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Greetings can someone please help identifying this classic straight deck laker? I took these pics back in the early 1990's on the St Clair river. Can't find anything on a shipping company with a large P on the stack, also can't quite make out the name. Have two others pics but keep getting an HTTP error message when trying to upload them.
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