Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . Selling the Lake Fleet A Profitable Activity—The Experiences in This Work of the W. E. Preston Co., Midland, and J. H. Stanley, Port Colborne, Ont. t „. THERE are a variety of activitiesin the grocery trade that come totheir full fruit in the spring andearly summer. Among these is the busi-ness done with the boats. Outfitting andprovisioning the boats that have beenlaid up for the winter in one of the manyharbors on the great lakes amounts toa very appreciable item and one that hascome to be a very substantial elementof business. W. E. Preston and Company,
Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . Selling the Lake Fleet A Profitable Activity—The Experiences in This Work of the W. E. Preston Co., Midland, and J. H. Stanley, Port Colborne, Ont. t „. THERE are a variety of activitiesin the grocery trade that come totheir full fruit in the spring andearly summer. Among these is the busi-ness done with the boats. Outfitting andprovisioning the boats that have beenlaid up for the winter in one of the manyharbors on the great lakes amounts toa very appreciable item and one that hascome to be a very substantial elementof business. W. E. Preston and Company, Midland,Ont, have for a good many years pastmade quite a feature of this businessand have found it to be a very worthwhile business. Midland is like a scoreof other ports that dot the shores ofthe great lakes. It is the winter quar-ters of a goodly number of boats thatfight their way down through the bliz-zards of Lake Superior to bring the lastcargo of grain before the deadly coldof winter closes this water highway ofa countrys commerce. Midland is arecognized winter port, but no more sothan a dozen others that could be men-tioned, and what can be done there canbe done in a score o
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