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Scotia II train ferry leaving the Strait of Canso after the completion of the Canso Causeway in 1955
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Canso Canal, Strait of Canso, Canada

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AND NOW YOU KNOW THE END OF THE STORY - The Scotia II was eventually converted into a barge and remained in Ontario. In 1987, a story published in the Sarnia (Ontario) Gazette told the story about a displaced Mulgraver finding a floating piece of home in Ontario.
"The Scotia II, docked along the St. Clair River just south of Ferry Dock Hill, is like a piece of Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, floating in the middle of Sarnia. To [Mel] Purcell, it's his panacea for homesickness.
"You see", explains the retired school teacher and principal, " she's been altered and the old boilers have rusted out and now she's used as a barge and is pushed by tugs, but the Scotia II is the same one I knew in Nova Scotia as a boy". CN officials have confirmed that.
"And", says Purcell, "the Scotia was Mulgrave. The town was so wrapped up in that ferry... She represented our hopes, our fears. When we were kids, we wondered who would grow up to be her captain. When I was a boy, we played hooky from school by climbing aboard and crossing to Cape Breton. Ah, the Scotia".
Once in Sarnia, Purcell was naturally drawn to the water and when he accidentally discovered his beloved 75-year-old ferry "I freaked out about it".