Stepping aboard Toronto's Trillium ferry is like travelling through time, but passengers on this vintage paddle steamer may not know about the time it was left to rot partially sunken. The Trillium's prestige only grew in 1919, when it took the Prince of Wales to the Toronto Islands during a royal visit to Canada. The abandoned vesselsAs the 1950s drew to a close, the Toronto Ferry Company was modernizing, as steam-powered vessels were being replaced by diesel-powered boats. It was sold to the Metro Toronto Works Department for just $4,500 to be repurposed as a sewage sludge-hauling boat, but was then towed to one of the island's lagoons and left to rot instead. Today, the Trillium continues to serve between the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and the Toronto Islands.