Small ship cruising resurfaces on the Great Lakes

Learning that small passenger ships were again sailing the Great Lakes from Toronto to Chicago was, for me, akin to discovering a new American coastline had been found.

“Last year there were 30 voyages through the Great Lakes carrying 6,000 passengers, and that is expected to double in 2019,” says Heidi Allison, president of CruiseComplete.com which publishes information on the cruise industry. “The Great Lakes Cruising Coalition was recently formed to promote the destination, and is in talks with eight significant cruise lines about introducing ships onto the Great Lakes.”

The “new” destination is a revival of what was once a popular route for tourist ships, but their harbor-hopping visits ceased in the mid-1950s when stringent safely regulations were introduced. However, the earliest records indicate passenger-carrying ships had been plying the waters of the Great Lakes as early as the mid-1800s.

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