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2/23/05 - Toronto, Ont. - This winter's polar vortex was a couple of months late in arriving but it made up for lost time by bringing in sub zero Fahrenheit freezing temperatures and icy winds. This caused a dramatic increase in harbor ice thickness. Early in the week the Ongiara got stuck a couple of times in heavy ice and had to be broken out by the fire boat. Friday the Ongiara was pulled out of service with an ice damaged propeller. Photos by Capt. John Jones.
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Ongiara running in fog, Nov. 29, 2005. Photo by Gerry Ouderkirk

Bow view of the car ferry ONGIARA as she approaches Toronto Islands. She's one two car ferries that service the islands. June 10, 2006, photo by Michel Gosselin.
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Sept. 3rd, 2007. Gerry Ouderkirk Collection.

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City of Toronto Parks & Recreation Passenger & Car Ferry Ongiara (launched 1963) heading to Hanlan's Point with a light load on the final day of the Toronto International Dragon Boat Festival (June 21, 2009). Photo by Joseph Wong.
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May 27, 2011. Photo by Lars Staal.
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The Ongiara ferrying picnickers to Ward's Island, in Toronto, May 19, 2013. Photo by Geoffrey Gilmour-Taylor, via flickr. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/giltay/8755750920/

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City of Toronto Ferry Ongiara departing the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal on Lake Ontario, July 3, 2014. Photo by Stephen Wilcox - Jetwashphotos.com, via flickr.
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By booledozer - Ferries in Toronto's harbour, 2015 05 28 (3), Public Domain, Link

 

TORONTO, CANADA on Sep 13th, 2017: View of Ongiara car ferry as it leaves Hanlans point. Ongiara was built in Owen Sound by Russel Brothers and commissioned in 1963. https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-31169848-toronto-canada-on-sep-13th-view-ongiara

 

Still from the Rick Mercer Report shoot, Jan. 2018.

 

ONGIARA crossing from Hanlan's Point to the City Terminal on 25th May 2018. Photos by Paul Green. https://www.hobbiesphotographic.co.uk/node/198

 

Ongiara builder's plate hanging in the ship June 2018. Photo by Don Hicks.

 

Ongiara in a 6 week refit at Toronto Drydock. Photos by Don Hicks. Don comments (Nov. 10, 2018): "We've taken about 20 feet out of her Hull and replaced it with new steel, the engine room is a complete refit, the electrical is getting rewired, and she'll get a new coat of paint all the way around. Oh did I mention that the 2 ramps on the bow and Stern are being replaced as well and all the hydraulics as well as I welded up the rudder. I could go on...She's been here 10 days with another 4 weeks to go."

Nov. 17, 2018: "She's coming along nicely." Photo by Don Hicks.

Ongiara, Toronto Drydock, Nov. 21, 2018. The boat is getting an entire electrical refit. Photo by Don Hicks.

Nov. 29, 2018: "We just got the propeller back from Allied Marine who did the repair work to her. She's the original propeller built by Kennedy and Sons of Owen Sound." Photo by Don Hicks.

 

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