The Hiawatha is a passenger ferry built in 1895 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.She is 56 feet (17 m) long, 13.3 feet (4.1 m) wide, has a depth of 6.3 feet (1.9 m), and measures 46 gross tons.Her capacity is 100 passengers.She was built by the Bertram Engine Works near Queen's Wharf and named for First Nation leader and co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy Hiawatha. The Hiawatha is claimed to be the oldest passenger vessel still in active service on the North American Great Lakes.