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      Wilfrid Laurier University is located in Waterloo, Ontario. It began in 1911 as the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada. In 1924 Waterloo College was established, providing courses in post-secondary education. In 1960 Waterloo College became Waterloo Lutheran University, and in 1973 changed its name to Wilfrid Laurier University. Laurier Brantford …

      This is a brochure published by the St. George Continuation School in 1931. It includes articles on the history of the school and student life. The original brochure is held by the South Dumfries Historical Society.

      Pamphlet published by the Niagara Historical Society. No. 42 in a multi-part series collects documents relating to Niagara history from the period leading up to the War of 1812.

      The Brooklin Spring Fair was initiated by the South Ontario County Agricultural Association, a group of farmers and businessmen in the Township of Whitby which also operated the Oshawa Fair. The first fair, lasting one day, was held at Grass Park on 24 May 1911. By 1915, the Brooklin Spring …

 Pembroke Daily Observer, June 12, 1931, Unknown     This news clipping describes the death and funeral proceedings of Mrs. Charles Gutzman (nee Amelia Lindemann) of Petawawa, ON.

      George Wettlaufer Dead Palermo, Nov. 16-(Special)- George Wettlaufer, a resident of this district for 30 years, died at his home in his 82nd year, after over a year's illness, during which period he was practically helpless. Born at New Hamburg, Perth County, Mr. Wettlaufer kept a General Store at Hawkesville, …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 13 Jun 1931     The name ROBERT C. PORTER does not appear in most sources of vessels on the Great Lakes.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Sep 1931     This vessel, bound from Johnston Harbour to Chatham with lumber, became waterlogged in a squall off Pointe Auz Barques on the American shore of Lake Huron on October 25, 1911. Captain John McDonald ana his crew of six got into the yawl boat and after an arduous trop across the …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jun 1931     Great Gales Schooner Days XXII (22) Navigation of the Great Lakes is just as perilous as navigation of the ocean. If the seas there run longer and higher, the seas here run shorter and steeper. An added factor of danger in the lakes is the peril of the tee shore …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 20 Jun 1931     The JULIA B. MERRILL Schooner Days XXI (21) Something about the old schooner ending her days as a Sunnyside attraction. There has been much sympathy for John Currie's warmly worded letter from Mimico on the subject of the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Apr 1931     "SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC WHEREVER SHE GOES" Schooner Days XI (11) Magistrate J. J. O'Connor's account of how the old lakers were decorated moves another graduate of the school of schooner sailors to describe a Lake Erie debutante and others.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Apr 1931   "SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC WHEREVER SHE GOES" Schooner Days XI (11) Magistrate J. J. O'Connor's account of how the old lakers were decorated moves another graduate of the school of …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 9 May 1931     Passages Schooner Days XV (15) The Gulnare's and the Wood Duck's--Yacht Atlantic's record has stood for twenty-six years--Who has facts on fast passages under sail on the lakes? "Now I'll tell one, " said Doc, wiping his ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 30 May 1931     The Hickory Jibboom Schooner Days XVIII (18) Magistrate J. J. O'Connor reports an "inquest" in the long vanished International Hotel.--The Magdala's run from Port Hope, which broke all records and a barley bin. I had some ...

      Thomas C. Goble Thomas C. Goble, 78, widely known resident of the First ward, died early Wednesday morning in Utica , after an illness that started about five years ago, and became serious the ...

      When Grant Played Checkers at Oswego To the Editor of The Post-Standard: I read your editorial concerning Grant at Galena with interest. Your request for stories of Grant while stationed at Sacket's Harbor brought to mind a story I have heard my father tell. He told that my ...

      Record Cargo At Oswego Canal officials witnessed the docking Saturday night at the Oswego grain elevator of the largest lake steamship that ever came into Oswego harbor. The steamer William F. ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), July 4, 1931     Great Gale of 1880 Schooner Days No. XXIII For forty years almost, Capt. David Reynolds was master of the Royal Canadian Yacht club launches Esmeralda, Hiawatha and Kwasind. His trips across the Bay, on their half-hour schedule, would have taken him twice around the ...

 Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), Jan. 31, 1931     Schooner Days No. 1 A White Squall Many a good story had the late Magistrate J.J. O'Connor, of Port Arthur. District Magistrate for Thunder Bay, to tell of schooner days on the Great Lakes. He was an Ontario County boy and went sailing early out of Whitby. Here is one …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Aug 1931     "SIX SHIPS" Schooner Days XXV (25). "Six Ships Vernon" was the nickname of that British Vice-Admiral of the Blue who invented grog; and who boasted, and made good his boast that, given half a dozen vessels he would beat the Spaniards out of Porto ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Sep 1931     "of WELLINGTON SQUARE" SCHOONER DAYS XXVI (26) Before going on with the Azov, last fore-and-after on Lake Huron, would you care to make a voyage to a vanished port? "When father got her in 1900," said Redfern ...