upper laker

noun, a laker that sails on the upper Great Lakes of Superior, Michigan, and Huron

“After The Seaway opened, it wasn’t too long that the elevator in Kingston shut down. They weren’t drawing. See the big boat, the big upper lakers, used to draw grain into the elevator. Well then the smaller boats would take it on down, eh, before The Seaway opened. Well, once The Seaway opened they didn’t need to stop. They took and went right through to Montreal or Quebec or right on out.”