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      Reason: fire Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 6 Jun 1931     Dusty Diamonds Schooner Days XIX (19) It's all over and done with now, but this is how we used to get our coal cargoes when the schooners went to Cleveland for them, in pre-prohibition days. The little hooker--for no matter ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 7 Feb 1931     The grounding of the MARY ANN LYDON at Charlotte was in October 1908, not 1906. See the linked newspaper account.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 6 May 1933     Great "A" Fleet Schooner Days LXXXVI. (86) All the vessels built by the Muir Brothers at Port Dalhousie on their own account had names beginning with "A." The only exceptions in the Muir fleet were the Niagara, which they built in the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 13 May 1933     The ARK Schooner Days LXXXVII (87) There is a story with whiskers on it that a certain sea captain once picked up a turtle swimming in the sea off the Galapagos, and on the turtle's back was a cuneiform inscription, translated by the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 20 May 1933     More About Muirs' SCHOONER DAYS LXXXVIII (88) Continuing the tale of the dynamic Alexander and his sturdy brethren, who made Port Dalhousie famous by their shipyard and drydock, we come upon their barque Advance and her ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Jun 1933     "Blue Banner of the Covenant" Schooner Days XCII (92) How its faraway influence worked out in the operation of the famous Muir Brothers' drydock at Port Dalhousie. ALL the Muirs were ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Mar 1933     PIRATES IN CHAINS AND ST. CATHARINES SLAVER ALEXANDER MUIR SAW Schooner Days LXXX. (80) First drydock to be built on the Welland Canal, and now the last of eight which have flourished on that Great Lakes highway, Muir ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 19 Feb 1938     Strange Story of Enchanted Sand. -1. Schooner Days CCCXXXIII (333) _______ IT is easy to imagine something more romantic than a sand pile on the grimy docks of Cleveland, Ohio, but there was one there in the fall of 1909 which ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 Sep 1935     Wife's Tragedy Made Husband's Fortune Schooner Days CCII (202) ___ Triple Drowning Was the Beginning Eighty-five Years Ago of the Great Drydock Enterprise at Port Dalhousie, Which is Still Going ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 16 Mar 1935     When the Lithophone Crossed the Lake Twice Under Bare Poles Schooner Days CLXXIX (179) ___ QUTGOING of the ice from the Credit and the Etobicoke this week recalls the curious voyage of the Lithophone. Oregon Bob Joyce, ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Feb 1938     Enchanted Sand's Third Victim Schooner Days CCCXXXIV (334) _______ PERHAPS you remember--and no one cares if you don't--that last week we began the tale of the hoodooed cargo of moulding sand, which some babbler boasted was dank ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 15 Oct 1938     'Nother of the "Bad Men" of the Great Lakes Schooner Days CCCLXVII (367) _______ --"To my weigh-heigh-heigh-ho We'll pay Paddy Doyle for his boots." --Old Chanty.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 15 Oct 1938   'Nother of the "Bad Men" of the Great Lakes Schooner Days CCCLXVII (367) _______ --"To my weigh-heigh-heigh-ho We'll pay Paddy Doyle for his boots." --Old Chanty.

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Jun 1932     Both this and the next entry in Schooner Days were numbered LIII (53)

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Aug 1935     Actually preceded no. CCII (202) because it was mis-numbered.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Aug 1936     The PERSIA and her Pet Coon Schooner Days CCLII (252) _______ FORTY-FIVE years ago, when the "new" City Hall was building, a big trade was carried on in cut stone. Schooner after schooner swam in from Kelley's Island in Lake ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 19 Jun 1937     Twice Downed, Still on Top Giving the Hard-Working and Almost Vanished Canal Tug a Break Schooner Days CCXCVII (297) _______ FOUR tiny tug boats that once chugged and churned with cumbersome barges and ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Jun 1933     "Port Muir" Schooner Days XC (90) It has been suggested, and with reason, that a suitable recognition of the enterprise of the Muir brothers, pioneer lake mariners, who did so much to develop the marine industry on fresh water, would be to name the new Lake Ontario ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Mar 1937     Port Credit to the Rescue of the City of Toronto Schooner Days CCLXXXIV (284) _______ PORT CREDIT, long the home of the stonehooker, was brought into the picture of schooner days and rebellion times by the concluding ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Jun 1933     TIGHT FIST BUT BIG HEART Schooner Days XCIII. (93) ALL his life a dollar looked large to Alexander Muir. Every dollar he had came with the sweat of his back as well as his brow. But he was generous. Capt. John Williams tells how, sixty ...