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      p.2 Kingston, Oct. 29th - By a gentleman from Toronto, who was a passenger in the William IV we have been informed of some of the particulars attending the temporary loss of this vessel on her unfortunate downward trip. It appears that yesterday morning, about 5 o'clock, when the ...

      On Tuesday last a new steamboat, built for the Hon. John Hamilton, was launched in gallant style from the works of the Niagara Harbour and Dock Company, amid the loud hurrahs of a large assemblage of spectators. She was christened the NIAGARA , is intended to run between Toronto ...

      (From the Toronto Patriot.) INDEMNIFICATION FOR LOSSES. The House on the motion of Col. Prince, went into a committee of the whole for granting a sum sufficient to indemnify persons from losses, and to pay all demands arising out of the late rebellion and invasion of this ...

      Travel and State of Trade. - Our harbor presents an animating scene by the almost constant arrival and departure of steam vessels and other craft. The steamboat Great Britain has taken her place in the daily line between this and Lewiston. Besides the American boats that ply daily between this …

      Welland Canal The St. Catharines Journal of the 14th instant, has a list of the vessels passing the Welland Canal, between the 5th and 11th of May which shows that 30 vessels passed up within that time. In four days, from the 6th to the 10th of May, 56 schooners …

      The trade of this Port has never, perhaps, been in a more prosperous and flourishing condition, than at the present moment. The quantity of produce on our wharves is enormous; and though many new storehouses are being erected, the want of Store Room is severely felt. The Ottawa and ...

      Shipwreck On Lake Erie - The Buffalo Republican says the facts concerning the shipwreck of the Neptune, at Michigan City, are far more terrible than had been reported. Eleven passengers were drowned in the vessel, besides the crew, consisting of eight persons, three of whom perished ...

      The schooner Victor, of Buffalo, is supposed to have been lost on Lake Erie, about the last of Nov. with all on board.

      Welland Canal Election - The annual election of directors of this corporation, for the ensuing year, was held at the company`s office, in this village, on the 6th inst., when the following named gentlemen were duly returned, by the stockholders - viz: Wm. Hamilton Merritt, Esq. of St. ...

      40 Mile Creek Harbour Grimsby, March 26, 1840 Publick Notice is hereby given that a general meeting of the stockholders of the "Grimsby Harbour Company", will be held at Udell's Tavern, in the village, on Monday the eleventh of May next, at 12 o'clock, noon, for the ...

      Louth Harbour Notice is hereby given, agreeably to the act of incorporation, that a meeting of the stockholders of the Louth Harbour Company, for the purpose of electing directors to serve the ensuing year, will be held at John Wismer's Inn, (formerly G.H. Kerr's) 20 mile creek, ...

      Grand River Navigation Company Publick Notice is hereby given, that a meeting of the stockholders of the Grand River Navigation Company, will be held at this office, on Monday, the fourth day of May next, at twelve o'clock, noon, for the purpose of electing directors, to serve ...

      Statement of property passed through the Welland Canal, in the season of 1839, compared with that passed in the season of 1838, shewing the increase and decrease. Articles 1839 1838 ...

      Our readers will recollect that the brig Neptune was wrecked last fall, and 17 of the 20 persons on board drowned. The following extract from a letter from a gentleman at Port Sheldon, in this State, gives some melancholy particulars of the fate of the three survivors: "On my return., …

      Removal From Office - It has been recently reported in this place, for a few days past, that his Excellency the Lieut. Governor has dismissed the Hon. John Willson from the directorship of the Welland Canal Co. and appointed a Mr. Cayley, of Niagara, in his place. The ...

      Welland Canal Marine List Vessels cleared at Port Dalhousie, upwards bound, from 2 d to 20th April, 1840 April Name From Bound To

    Welland Canal Marine List Vessels cleared at Port Dalhousie, upwards bound, from 2 d to 20th April, 1840 April Name From Bound To

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Oswego Route. - We notice that a public meeting has lately been holden at Oswego, at which Mr. Bronson, chairman of the committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting, states that there were upwards of sixty vessels in the harbor of that town destined for Lake …

      To travellers going West we recommend them to take the Oswego or lake route. It is altogether the most easy, pleasant, expeditious and economical. At Syracuse you leave the railroad and take a packet or stage to Oswego; there you will find a splendid steamboat, managed by gentlemanly, ...

      "The Ontario" - This is the name of a steam boat which was built at Prescott last summer by that enterprising gentleman, the Hon. John Hamilton, by whom she is intended to navigate the Saint Lawrence, from Kingston to the Cedars, in Lower Canada, surmounting the rapids of the Long …

      We understand that the Hon. John Hamilton's new steam boat, the Ontario, intended to overcome the rapids of the Long Sault, was tried last week between Niagara and Queenston, and ran the distance, 14 miles there and back, in 43 minutes. She went up in 19 1/2 minutes. It is …