Talk:Boat building industry in Ontario

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I started this page some time ago in my own user space because I was writing Peterborough Canoe Company and needed a place to put interesting facts and references which I came across that were not directly relevant to that article but which might be useful for articles about other companies. I was also using it to keep a linked list of boat building companies, intending to check later to see which ones might make good articles. I got caught up working on two other projects and hadn't yet got back to it. I even marked it NOINDEX to keep it out of search engines. The page was moved out of my user space by other editors. I guess I can retrieve my list of boat companies from the history; I certainly didn't intend for them to be in mainspace without proper references.&mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 04:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

boat building in Toronto and Collingwood
There were many boatbuilders on the Toronto waterfront. There was an active boatbuilding and repair industry at Ashbridge's Bay and the Toronto Harbour. Among these was J.J. Taylor and Sons which built both sailboats and motorboats from 1904 to the 1970s. Contessa 26 sailboats built by J.J. Taylor can still be seen at many harbours on Lake Ontario. Source: newspaper article "Historic boat building: on the Toronto waterfront."

W. Watts and Sons started off in Toronto Harbour but soon moved to Collingwood where they built lifeboats, fishing boats and pleasure sailing boats. Source: Watts, Peter, and Tracy Marsh. W. Watts & Sons Boat Builders: Canadian Designs for Work and Pleasure, 1842-1946. Oshawa: Mackinaw Productions, 1997. ISBN 0-9682808-0-3. R.J. Morrill also operated a boatbuilding business in Collingwood, listed in Vernon’s Collingwood Directory, 1912-13. 64.228.209.137 (talk) 23:09, 17 December 2022 (UTC)