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This past December 2020, the Mission's Miranda Peters and the mission crew, visited almost every ship that came into Hamilton Harbour...

Dear Pastor Dan, ​ On behalf of the crew of Stella Polaris I would like to thank the Mission to Seafarers in Hamilton and everybody...

Keeping Seafarers happy is a very big deal to us and they are so grateful for so little. These two Seafarers were from Indonesia and were...

Congratulations to McKeil Marine on the re-christening of their newest vessel, the MV Wicky Spirit, in the Port of Toronto August 1st,...

Wow! Visitors in Oshawa at the Terry Finlay Seafarers Centre this weekend. Many of the Filipino seafarers have had visits during their...

The International Sailors Society of Canada has awarded the MTSSO an incredibly generous grant for 2018. It is in fact the largest one...

Three ecumenical university chaplaincies (Brock University, McMaster University, and the University of Guelph) as well as The Mission to...

Posted on Mon, January 1, 2018 by Ronda Ploughman

The Mission to Seafarers Toronto has been nominated by seafarers for Seafarers’ Centre of the Year 2018 for the International Seafarers’...

Volunteers from the Canadian Board of Marine Underwriters provided the funds from a 50/50 draw in Giving Tuesday as well as the labour...

Help us win $5,000! Super easy to to here's how: 1. Click the link below 2. Enter your name and contact info 3. Specify that you're...

Posted on Tue, October 10, 2017 by Ronda Ploughman

The Mission to Seafarers Southern Ontario is honoured to be the recipient of such an incredibly generous donation in memory of our long...

Volunteer Sue Hawthorne-Bate with Chaplain Rev. Jann Maloney (on the right) who is our Volunteer Coordinator touring the M.V. Ardita...

The 2017 Great Lakes shipping season opens when the St. Lawrence Seaway opens on March 22. We hope to have our new Oshawa station open in...

A very warm and special thanks goes out to the Hamilton Port Authority for their generous support of Mission to Seafarers Southern...

Posted on Tue, January 27, 2015 by David Anderson The board of directors of the recently amalgamated Mission to Seafarers Southern...

Tim Huxley is a director of the Mission to Seafarers Southern Ontario. He shares the following story. In December, 2014, while on a...