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      Death Of Brower Morgan. A Veteran Ship Carpenter Passes Away. Brower W. Morgan , a well known resident of this city, died at an early hour this morning at his home, 168 West Seneca St. He was eight-three years old and for ...

      On lake bottom the barge Onondaga founders on Lake Ontario The coal barge Onondoga foundered on Lake Ontario, one mile North of Stony Point Light, Tuesday and is at the bottom with 632 tons of coal in her bulk. The Black Diamond, a sister coal barge, is sunk near Navy …

      Passing of the Canal Schooner. _______ The Oliver Mitchell Attracts Attention at Toledo _______ Fifteen Days Out With a Load of Anthracite From Oswego - Made Less Than a Mile an Hour in Her Progress Up the Lakes. _______ Toledo, Oct. 25. - If a rakish ...

      On Lake Bottom Barge Onondaga Founders On Lake Ontario The coal barge Onondaga foundered in Lake Ontario, one mile north of Stony Point light, Tuesday and is at the bottom with 632 tons of coal in her hulk. The Black Diamond, a sister coal barge, is sunk near Navy Point …

 Daily Palladium (Oswego, NY), 14 Sep 1907     Commerce of Great Lakes _____ Famous Sailing Vessels Have Disappeared _____ Only a Few Remain, Mostly on Lakes Michigan and Ontario -Wooden Boats Also a Thing of the Past - Big Steel Carriers Take Their Place. ____ The day of the sailing vessel on the ...

      The passing away of Edgar Crapo leaves a fund of stories of deeds of daring to be told about the ferryman who for many years carried the mail from Sackets Harbor to Pillar Point, with one withered leg from infancy, and a crutch to take its place. He would ride …

 Oswego Daily Commercial Times (Oswego, NY), 2 May 1907     Brower A. Morgan Brower A. Morgan, one of Oswego's oldest residents and a veteran ship carpenter, died this morning at home, No. 168 West Seneca Street. Mr. Morgan was in his eighty-third year. Most of his life was passed in Oswego where he was employed for half a century by …

      The Death of Captain Ferris _________ The End Came at His Home Early Yesterday Morning. _________ For Forty five Years He Had Commanded Tugs - Loved and Respected by a Large Number of Friends. A Brave Man Has Gone to His Reward. Captain Charles W. Ferris, ...

      1907 DAILY BRITISH WHIG (available on microfilm at Kingston-Frontenac Public Library or Queen's University - Stauffer Library) Jan. 2, 1907 p.1 Golspie Victim Dead - Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 2nd - Neil (or Macdonald) one of the five sailors wrecked ...

      p.4 Picton, Jan. 2nd - John Tait, foreman ship builder and draughtsman, and four Picton shipcarpenters, are busily engaged at Deseronto on a new steamyacht, the cost of which it is estimated will be between $50,000 and $60,000, for Dr. Oronhyatekha, supreme chief ranger of the ...

      p.5 Pith of the News - The ship yards of the great lakes have under construction, for delivery, this year, seventy-one vessels. Forty-five of them are bulk freighters and four are passenger steamers. Fifteen of the vessels will be built by Detroit yards.

      p.5 Will It Sell - rumor that C.P.R. intends to absorb the R. & O. Navigation company; it would have to go before the shareholders of the company. [Montreal Witness] p.6 A Big Breakwater - Work Done and Hoped For At Cape Vincent, N.Y. - detailed history ...

      p.1 Bought Steamer - Toronto, Jan. 8th - The steamer Tadousac, owned by John Waldie and A.A. Wright, has been sold to the Northern Navigation company for $150,000. The navigation company will place the boat on the grain and package freight route to some port from Port Arthur and ...

      p.1 THE RAPIDS KING Was Launched At Toronto This Afternoon. Toronto, Jan. 9th - The new Richelieu & Ontario Navigation steamer, Rapids King, was launched at one o'clock this afternoon, from the yards of the Canadian Shipbuilding ...

      p.2 Only To The Island - It was expected that the steamer Pierrepont would be able to make a trip to Cape Vincent today, but the weather was against it. The vessel, however, made a trip to Wolfe Island, with twenty-five passengers for the Cape. Fire On A Boat - …

      p.2 Yawl Boat Floated Away - The yawl boat of the schooner Suffel, lying near Richardsons', was left out on the ice, and yesterday, it floated over to the R.M.C. point. Some men who were working on the boat secured another yawl boat and towed the missing one in. Incidents …

      p.4 Caught In Ice Floe - at Ogdensburg ice below dam broke up and lodged at bridge, flooding boathouses; steamer Armstrong broke a channel from St. Lawrence to bridge; the flood of ice caught the schooners and barges in winter quarters at Hannan's dock and snapping their lines ...

      p.1 Picton, Jan. 12th - The yearly returns at the custom house were announced to the Whig, today, and show Picton to be a goodly port. The receipts for 1906 totalled $27,413.05. Last year the receipts were $18,104.31, the increase of $9,308.74 bespeaks materially increased ...

      p.3 Cape Vincent, Jan. 15th - ...The first steamboat to arrive at the port of Cape Vincent in the year 1907, was the steamer Pierrepont, which arrived Tuesday, shortly after noon. The boat returned immediately..... p.5 LOCAL MARINE ...

      p.4 MARINE ASSOCIATION At the annual meeting of the Dominion Marine Association at Ottawa in Ottawa, J.A. Cuttle, the president, referred to the desire of the association to have hospital fees abolished. The following officers were elected: President, ...