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      First Boat on Lake Ontario ______ James L. Barton, Esq., in a letter recently delivered to the Young Men's Association of Buffalo, gives the following account of the first American Boat that ever floated on the waters of the Great Lakes. In 1789, John Fellows, of ...

      H. Fitzhugh & Co., proprietors of the schooner Cuba, which was run down and sunk on Lake Ontario on the night of the 6th of May, 1847, by the Propeller Genesee Chief, and with her cargo of wheat lost, have just recovered a judgment of $3,054.06 against the owners of …

      Wreck of the Niagara. _____ The steamer Niagara, than which there are few finer vessels in the world, left this port for Rochester on the morning of the 18th, under the command of Capt. Childs, with some seventy passengers, among who were a number of ladies. The wind was ...

      1848 KINGSTON CHRONICLE & NEWS (from originals at Queen's University Special Collections unless otherwise noted) p.3 In the Court of Bankruptcy for the Midland District. In the matter of Thomas Collins and William Power ...

      p.2 THE ONTARIO is the name of a new steamer recently built at French Creek for the American Mail line on the lake. The Oswego Times furnishes the annexed description of her: "This vessel has been towed up from French Creek and now lies at the dock, foot of Seneca …

      p.2 harbor covered in ice. p.3 GOVERNMENT NOTICE. STEAM BOAT TRANSPORT. On Lake Ontario, For the Year 1848. Sealed Tenders will be received at the Commissariat Office, ...

      p.3 BANKRUPTCY SALE. Will be sold by Auction, on Wednesday next, the 26th instant, at the stone warehouse adjoining the railway, a quantity of articles belonging to the Bankrupt Estate of Sanderson & Murray, viz.: 20 Barge oars; 3 gaffs; 2 ...

      p.3 GOVERNMENT NOTICE. STEAMBOAT TRANSPORT. Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon on Monday, the 14th February next, for Transport By Steamboat during the season of navigation of 1848, of Troops, Government ...

      p.2 Toronto Dry Dock Company - This Company, which received its Charter during the last session of Parliament, is about to go into active operation. A few temporary buildings will be erected on its premises at Reese's wharf and the Company will soon be prepared to execute orders ...

      p.2 A Bridge Wanted - for crossing gap in ice which usually obstructs the free crossing between City and Wolfe & Garden Islands. p.3 Married - yesterday, Walter McCuniffe, Harbor-master of this Port, to Mrs. Vallier, also of this city. ...

      p.2 letter to editor of Toronto Herald about Free Trade, duties, inland trade, etc.; (1 1/2 columns by Donald Bethune.)

      p.2 The Weather - ...the ice in the Bay was broken up nearly to Browne's Wharf, and the steamer Chief Justice took in freight and passengers yesterday morning, at the Yonge Street Wharf - a circumstance, we are informed, unprecedented in Toronto at this period of the year... ...

      p.2 Free Navigation of the St. Lawrence - a letter to editor. [Toronto Globe] p.3 Lake Erie - The steamer Albany left Detroit last week on her way to Sandusky. The Albany had troops on board bound for Mexico. Ship-building at Cleveland - The various ...

      p.3 The Weather - ...The ice on the waters of the harbor is more porous than usual at this season of the year, and in many places near the wharves has entirely disappeared.

      p.3 Port Hope Harbor - The committee appointed at a public meeting to memorialize the Provincial Government respecting the Port Hope harbor, have performed their duty; already, 1,400 names are attached to it, and we understand it is being numerously signed in Hamilton, Toronto, ...

      p.3 NOTICE. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Stockholders of the Kingston Marine Railway Company will be held on Monday the third day of April next, at one o'clock P.M., at the Office of the undersigned. JAMES FRASER, Secretary. Kingston, 1st ...

      p.2 Melancholy Accident - On the afternoon of Thursday, as Capt. Abbott, sailing master of the steamer Ireland, was engaged in hoisting a mast on board the steamer Queen Victoria he was accidentally precipitated from the deck into the hold, striking his head with so much violence ...

      p.2 Navigation - The steamer Eclipse was advertised to leave Toronto for Hamilton on Monday last. PORT HOPE HARBOR. By the attention of a friend, we are put in possession of a copy of a memorial to His Excellency the Governor General, praying that His ...

      p.2 REWARD OF MERIT. We are gratified in learning that it is the intention of the British American Assurance Company to present two medals to Captain W.R. Taylor, of the Schooner Governor, and Captain Pollock, of the Schooner Sir Charles Bagot. It will ...

      p.1 The Navigation Laws of Great Britain - American Commerce.