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 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Aug 1932     The Hill In The Bottom Of The Lake Schooner Days CII (102) Everyone has heard of the "hole in the bottom of the sea," but how many know of the volcano in the middle of Lake Superior? Capt. Jas. McConnel and other lake farers corresponding ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Mar 1932     The YOUNG LION Schooner Days XXXVII (37) More about Captains Frank Jackman, Sr. and Jr., and the craft they made famous. Capt. Frank Jackman, Sr., who came back with the Sea Gull and a bushy white beard from South Africa, ...

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 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Nov 1932     The CONDUCTOR Schooner Days LXIII (63) It was seventy-eight years ago last Thursday--November 24th, 1354--that Abigail Becker rescued the crew of the schooner Conductor, wrecked on Long Point, Lake Erie, and thus ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Dec 1932     TIMBER DROGHING SCHOONER DAYS LXVIII. (68) What the original "drogher" was Noah only knows. The name looks like an Irish one, but isn't. The word comes from our own Anglo-Saxon verb "drag." In the West Indies they call the little coasters that carry rum and sugar or ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Jan 1932     White Oak Shavings Schooner Days LXX (70) Had the White Oak of Oakville, been christened the G. K. Chisholm or Dominion or Alice, the chances are that her undoubted merits would not have rescued her from oblivion. As it was, her happy name gave her a personality which ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Nov 1932     Riddle of Lighthouse Point Schooner Days LXI (60) This season's low water has again uncovered an ancient wreck on the south shore of the Island, just around the south-west corner, before you come to the old stone lighthouse. Every "ebb" ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Feb 1932     Frank Jackman Started to Sea at 8 Schooner Days XXXVI (36) Frank Jackman was a good sailorman, a good tug man, a good business man, and a good dresser. He was, indeed, a tonsorial and sartorial delight. To meet Frank uptown was to learn ...

 Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), February 20, 1932     SCHOONER DAYS XXXV JANUARY PASSAGE of the ELLA MURTON Talk of the time Capt. John Williams fitted out the Speedwell in February and ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 19 Mar 1932     More About the ELLA MURTON Schooner Days XXXIX (39) Has anyone a picture of the Ella Murton, the schooner which was the heroine of the January Passage yarn in last month's "Schooner Days"? Loan of it for copying purposes would he appreciated. Old-timers ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Mar 1932     The Sailing EXPRESS WAGON Schooner Days XL (40) There was, indeed, another Sea Gull frequenting Toronto Harbor, quite as industrious as the brigantine Sea Gull which made the voyage to South Africa, and brought back the famous sample of Durban rum--but very, very much ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 Apr 1932     Early Birding Schooner Days XLI (41) With the Ella Murton's January passage to Oswego, as related recently, still in mind, sailors of Hot Stove Harbor may be interested in some recollections concerning a Toronto vessel man who is still hale and hearty, Capt. John ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 30 Apr 1932     One Anchor-watch Schooner Days, XLV (45) Capt. David Reynolds, for forty years master of Royal Canadian Yacht Club steamers, here continues his yarn of some of his experiences in the schooner Baltic, of Wellington Square. I ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 May 1932     The Blower Boys Schooner Days XLVI (46) "While the hookers were here, the Blower boys sailed 'em" These words, coming from the lips of an old sailor, are possibly the most concise summing up of the history of the Blower family, of Port Credit, the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 May 1932     The Pummy Schooner Days XLVII (47) If schooner men scorned stonehookers in our days of the wind ships, stonehooker sailors despised pummies still more. Stonehookers were those patched and picturesque craft whose resourceful crews of two or three men ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 21 May 1932     Scarlet Geranium Schooner Days XLVIII (48) Being the conclusion of the whole matter regarding Liverpool Andy, pummy in stonehookers, whose existence was outlined in this column last week. SPRING was ever the season for ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 28 May 1932     Standing Keels and British Queens Schooner Days XLIX (49) Builder's model of Port Credit's largest sailing craft, a square rigger, recalls pre-centreboard days in the lake fleets. STANDING-KEELERS passed out of the lake ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Jun 1932     Sophia and Sisters Schooner Days LII (52) Delving into the records of lake vessels which ventured to cross the Atlantic when wind was the motive power and all work was done by hand, the following "cockleshells" appear among the earliest. None of these vessels was over ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 Jul 1932     This was the second instalment of "Schooner Days" to be identified as LIII or 53.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 9 Jul 1932     Bones Schooner Days LIV (54) Last week we had Capt. Jas. Peacock's reminder that his old schooner, Arthur, of Toronto, in 1917 (the forty-third year of her age), began making ocean voyages, and was very successful thereat. She carried, as he pointed out, lumber between ...