{"id":67502,"date":"2026-10-30T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=67502"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:13:30","slug":"dan-visits-the-great-lakes-museum-in-kingston-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/dan-visits-the-great-lakes-museum-in-kingston-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Visits the Great Lakes Museum in Kingston, Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>by Dan Greenall<\/strong><\/p>\n

While visiting friends this past weekend in Kingston, Ontario, my wife and I paid a visit to the Great Lakes Museum<\/a> where we had the good fortune to tour the S S Keewatin, a Titanic-era passenger ship that served the Great Lakes between 1908 and 1965. It is now a floating museum and permanently docked in Kingston.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the first stops on our 1.5-hour tour was at the original wireless station, call sign VGMC, which originally began as VGC. I snapped a few quick photos before being whisked away past the amateur radio station that has been set up and occasionally goes on the air, call sign VA3VGC.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>The call sign commemorates the ship’s original maritime radio call signs, which the SS Keewatin used starting around 1911 with its Marconi wireless equipment. A couple more photos were hastily taken, as the tour moved quickly along. Additional information about the equipment that is on display here can be found at: https:\/\/greatlakesmuseum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/VA3VGC_Photo-Gallery-compressed.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Later on, while viewing some of the passenger cabins aboard the Keewatin, I spotted an old issue of Electronics Illustrated from October 1959 lying on a bed.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can read a copy here: https:\/\/www.worldradiohistory.com\/Archive-Electronics-Illustrated\/Electronics-Illustrated-1959-10.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

I would encourage anyone visiting the Kingston, Ontario area to take a tour of the S S Keewatin. I suspect there are other Museum Ships out there with a Wireless station set up and would be interested to hear about any of these.<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

Dan Greenall, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Dan Greenall While visiting friends this past weekend in Kingston, Ontario, my wife and I paid a visit to the Great Lakes Museum where we had the good fortune to tour the S S Keewatin, a Titanic-era passenger ship that served the Great Lakes between 1908 and 1965. It is now a floating museum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,43],"tags":[10271,11203,2195,11204],"class_list":["post-67502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-greenall","tag-great-lakes-museum","tag-maritime-operation","tag-va3vgc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hyK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67511,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67502\/revisions\/67511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}