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Interviewer:
Did you ever experience the inlet freezing over?

Mr. Hutchinson:
Oh yes. I skated from the head of the bay right down to Ioco.

Interviewer:
Did you? It was smooth enough to do that?

Mr. Hutchinson:
It was smooth but I'll tell you what you had to watch, the tide comes out and goes in, eh? And there used to be cracks in it, little cracks in the ice, not that you'd fall through but there was cracks. And if you were skating along like that, you're skating along like that and you hit a crack with your skate there you'd go. Old Mr. Baird in the end he, he rigged up a tug with a bunch of logs on the tug and broke the ice - went through and broke the ice.

Interviewer:
Oh yes.

Mr. Hutchinson:
He broke them up so the tankers could come in to Ioco because they couldn't get up.

Interviewer:
Mr. Baird had..several tugs didn't he?


Mr. Hutchinson:
Uh, at that time I think he had two, I think. Yeah, he had two. Later on he had more. I think he had..he had three all together.

Interviewer:
Where did he keep them?

Mr. Hutchinson:
Right down here.

Interviewer:
At the pier?

Mr. Hutchinson:
Yeah. Just..just, no, down, well, first he kept them down at the pier then after they took the pier away then he kept them down just below, uh, where the terminal dock is down there.

Interviewer:
Oh yeah.

Mr. Hutchinson:
Matter of fact that's where the people that bought Mr. Baird out, that's where they have their tugs now.

Interviewer:
Oh, they're still there are they?

Mr. Hutchinson:
Oh yeah.