Sailing ship 'Lyman M. Davis' lying at Sunnyside Beach, Toronto

On reverse of postcard: sole survivor of that company of ships which for two centuries plied the Great Lakes with cargo under canvas, the LYMAN M. DAVIS lies at Sunnyside Beach, awaiting the day when she will be burned to make a spectacle for vast crowds of people. When the waves finally close over her hull and her stately masts fall, her kind shall have been seen for the last time on the great inland seas of America. She is a 430 ton two-master, 125 feet in length, with masts 130 feet high. She was built in 1873 in the United States and has braved the storms on all the lakes.