{|    |} ms chi-cheemaun is a passenger and car ferry in ontario, canada, which traverses lake huron between tobermory on bruce peninsula and south baymouth on manitoulin island. the ferry connects the two geographically separate portions of highway 6 and is the vessel that replaced ms norgoma and ss norisle in 1974. the ferry service runs seasonally from mid-may to mid-october. literally translated, "chi-cheemaun" (in folk orthography or chi-jiimaan in the more standard fiero double vowel spelling) means "big canoe" in ojibwe. ==history== a trip aboard chi-cheemaun is a long standing great lakes tradition dating back to the 1930s when a small, wooden vessel, kagawong, first ferried automobiles across the georgian bay between tobermory and south baymouth.{{cite web | author= | title=tour the cheec | url=http://www.chicheemaun.com/chi/english/tour.html | publisher=owen sound transportation company | year=2011 | ac
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