When completed in 1944, as the OUTREMONT PARK for the Canadian Government, she was managed by Park Steamship Company a war-time emergency concern, but her actual operation was in the hands of McLean Kennedy Ltd. Sold in 1946 to Furness (Canada) Ltd. and became BRAZILIAN PRINCE. In 1951 transferred from Canadian to British registry.
Chartered in 1953 by Shaw Savill Line to replace the CUFIC on the South Africa-Australia-New Zealand service. After her last sailing from East Africa in August 1956, she was returned to her owners on the North Atlantic run. In 1958 she was sold to the Federal Commerce and Navigation Company, a Canadian company managed by Watts, Watts and Company of London, and was renamed FEDERAL PIONEER.
Source: The Ships that Serve New Zealand - Volume 1 British and European Lines by I.G. Stewart. (A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington) 1964.

My dad Captain Ronald Meldrum sailed from Montreal to the Artic as chief officer. He was actually retired at the time and was asked to make the trip.