Niagara residents will get a brief glimpse of HMCS Margaret Brooke, one of Canada’s Arctic and offshore patrol ships, as it makes way through the region during a two-month Great Lakes tour with stops planned across Ontario and Québec.

As of Friday evening on the St. Lawrence River southwest of Montreal, the second vessel in the Harry DeWolf-class is bound for Thunder Bay, the first stop on its tour.

Sister ship HMCS Harry DeWolf, first in the class, toured the lakes last year.

The position of HMCS Margaret Brooke can be tracked on the MarineTraffic website — www.marinetraffic.com — using the search bar and entering its name.

The 103-metre-long vessel was commissioned in 2022 and has a range of 6,800 nautical miles (12,600 kilometres). With a maximum crew of 85, the Navy ship has a

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