Event Details
Sunday November 23, 2025
10 am to 2 pm
Quality Inn & Suites – Prescott
135 Prescott Centre Drive, Prescott, ON K0E 1T0
Attendance
The event is open to all SOS Members and their guests. For those unable to attend in person, there will be a Zoom Meeting link available.
To attend in-person or on-line, you must RSVP to durrell@saveontarioshipwrecks.ca by Wednesday November 19th
Liability Release Agreement
If attending in-person, you will also need to complete the Communicable Disease Liability Release and Assumption of Risk Agreement
Note, if you have already done this earlier in the year you do not need to complete it again.
Agenda
Welcome
Land Acknowledgement – Kayla Martin
Review of Voting Procedures (in-person and On-line)
Approval of Agenda
Secretary Report – Matthew Charlesworth
Approval of 2024 AGM Minutes
Treasurer Report – David Taylor
Approval of 2024 Auditor Statement
Approve Auditors for 2025/26
Presidents Report – Durrell Martin
Buoy Chair Report – Raimund J. Krob
Webmaster Report – Durrell Martin
Membership Report – Kimberly Zawaly
Approve Membership Rates for 2026
Heritage Ambassador – Kayla Martin
Ottawa Chapter Report – John Ratcliffe
Thousand Islands Chapter Report – Stephan Senecal
Picton Chapter Report – Helen Cooper
Toronto Chapter Report – Ted Endean
Niagara Chapter Report – Trent Zawaly
Windsor Chapter Report – John Karry
Superior Chapter Report – Richard Harvey
Southern Georgian Bay Chapter Report – Bill Martin
Tobermory Chapter Report – Griffin Salen
Preserve our Wreck Kingston (Affiliate) Report – Guillaume Courcy
Presentation of the Marine Heritage Award to Stephen Hatch
Board Election for 2025/26
Motion for Adjournment
Coffee Break
Presentation
We have a very special guest speaker this year!
Walter Lewis – Marine Historian
Great Lakes Museum Dockyards through the Decades:
Over 200 years of ship repair in the Kingston Area
Walter Lewis took up diving in 1990 specifically to dive on the wreck of the CORNWALL. In 1995 at the inaugural Niagara Divers’ Shipwreck Symposium, he did a presentation on the wreck, which was subsequently the subject of The River Palace, co-authored with the late Rick Neilson and published by Dundurn Press in 2008. In the following year, he and Rick were awarded the S.O.S. Marine Heritage Award.
In 2011 Walter was named Great Lakes Historian of the Year, an award presented by the Marine Historical Society of Detroit. He is known to many in the Great Lakes community for the website he manages, which presents the raw materials of history gathered through the work of many researchers, particularly those interested in shipwrecks. He is a frequent speaker on a wide range of topics related to the history of the Great Lakes.
www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
If you are interested in serving on the Board of Directors then please email durrell@saveontarioshipwrecks.ca
