A Conversation with Captain Gerry Greig

The Inland Mariners Oral History Series, No. 4:

Captain Gerry Greig talks about his career on the Great Lakes. Gerry begain sailing in 1964 as a relief deckhand on the steamers Maunaloa II and the Douglass Houghton. In 1970 he took his first licensed job when he became 3rd Mate on the Red Wing, A decade later he was appointed captain of the Gordon C. Leitch. Since 1995 Gerry has been permanent skipper on the Canadian Miner. Captain Greig has worked all 41 of his years with Upper Lakes.

Ships Gerry worked on in his early years on the Great Lakes
1964 Str. Maunaloa II, Douglass Houghton
1965 - 1966 Douglass Houghton
1967 - 1968 Seaway Queen
1969 - 1971 Red Wing
1972 - 1973 Canadian Century
1974 Northern Venture
1974 Seaway Queen, Gordon C. Leitch (1)
1975 - 1979 Thorn Hill, Meaford, Point Noire, R. Bruce Angus, Wheat King
1979 Str. Goderich (relief captain), Gordon C. Leitch (captain)