Windsolite was a small oil tanker launched in 1927.
Her service was on the North American Great Lakes. She was operated by Imperial Oil.
Windsolite transiting the Welland Canal in 1936.
Raymond Murray Schafer was a Canadian composer, writer, music educator, and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977). He was the first recipient of the Jules Léger Prize in 1978.
Schafer in 2007
In his memoirs, My Life on Earth and Elsewhere, Schafer described serving as a novice deckhand aboard the oil tanker Imperial Windsor in 1955.