So many meet in the main hall but pay little attention to the bell over their heads.  

At closer look at the brass ship’s bell is marked “GLENGELDIE” ,Hull number 1144, launched in 1923 at the Swan, Hunter &Wigham Richardson Limited at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.  

This vessel operated for the Glen Line Ltd. which in 1923 was incorporated by many of the principals involved with the Great Lakes Transportation Company. The new firm was established to operate nine  new canal size vessels (Called Canalers) 261 feet long (79.55 meter) 42.5 feet wide (12.95 meter) bulk carrier was registered at 1,906 gross tons.

GLENGELDIE  was enrounte from Killarney to Welland, Ont.  when she was damaged in a grounding on Georgian Bay October 11 1923 and was repaired at Collingwood.

The ship was then took over by Canada Steamship Lines in 1926 and was renamed the next year to the “ELGIN”.

During the1936 season was used for coal trade from Sydney N.S. to Hamilton. During World War two the ELGIN sailed on the Gulf of St. Lawrence and also that year in the Caribbean bauxite trade. During this time in these very waters a number of other vessels had been torpedoed.

She returned to the Great Lakes untouched by war. In 1962 she tied up in Kingston and was retired After being idle for less than a year, the ELGIN was sold to Stelco and towed to Hamilton, Ont. September 1963 and broken up for Scrap.

It is possible that the two wheels and the propeller at the front of the building could be off this vessel.
A close look I do believe the one wheel closet to the stage is not real.
R. Lee 2023

Sources:
Postwar Ships of Canada Steamship Lines   by Skip Gillman
Name sakes 1956-1980   by John O. Greenwood