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Welcome to the gallery of the Virtual Museum! If you want to see an image in full size, all you need to do is to click on it.
Photo of a small lighthouse with a Canadian flag
Excerpt from newspaper article with photo of Denis Sinnett.
Black and white photo of a map of North America with many concentric circles above Lake Huron.
Device indicating the four possible speeds forwards and backwards.
Three-dial meter with three hands.
Patent log and meter on display
Black and white photo of a boat washed up on a beach, shattered by the rocks.
Photo taken from the beach showing a slightly cloudy orange sky above the lake.
The warning system was made of different-shaped wicker baskets and coloured lights hanging from a post.
Wooden steering wheel with eight handles
Black and white photo of two men moving bodies on the beach.
Black and white photo of a harbour and a factory
Black and white photo of a page of the captain's diary. The last entry is from November 7, 1913.
Photo taken a few feet from the water, showing the lake's waves with a large boat in the distance.
Map of the Great Lakes region that shows the two weather fronts advancing.
Black and white photo of a snow-covered port and factory. Three boats are docked at harbour with pieces of ice floating around them.
Leather logbook with 1913 in gold on the cover
Colour painting of wreckage at the bottom of a lake.
Map of the Great Lakes region
Diagrams showing the four possible warnings with this early twentieth-century system.
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