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Shipkeeper Bill Cook stands on the deck of the Go one of the two ships he keeps an eye on during the wi daily inspections to check that everything is shipshap sister ship, the James Norris, are the largest grain carries now wintering in Toronto harbor. Cook receives $575 a month for keeping both ships. He lives rent-free aboard the Leitch, in the chief cook's room. [Incomplete]
Shipkeeper Bill Cook stands on the deck of the Go one of the two ships he keeps an eye on during the wi daily inspections to check that everything is shipshap sister ship, the James Norris, are the largest grain carries now wintering in Toronto harbor. Cook receives $575 a month for keeping both ships. He lives rent-free aboard the Leitch, in the chief cook's room. [Incomplete]

Shipkeeper Bill Cook stands on the deck of the Go one of the two ships he keeps an eye on during the wi daily inspections to check that everything is shipshap sister ship, the James Norris, are the largest grain carries now wintering in Toronto harbor. Cook receives $575 a month for keeping both ships. He lives rent-free aboard the Leitch, in the chief cook's room. [Incomplete]

Date2/6/1972
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126117F
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