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      Barge Beats Her Steamer Tale of Two Brothers Schooner Days CCXLIX (249) _______ NOTATIONS are cryptic in the records of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection of the U.S. Department of Commerce. As instance: ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Jan 1936     Who Built "Prince Regent" and What Did She do? Schooner Days CCXXIV (224) _______ JOHN DENNIS was probably the master builder of the Prince Regent, whose ancient bones have been uncovered in Navy Bay, at Kingston, after ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Feb 1936     "Spences of Saugeen"- Some of Their Ships Schooner Days CCXXVIII (228) _______ As soon as Capt. John Spence's little boys were able to toddle up the gangplank he took them sailing with him--Johnny and Harry and Willy and ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 19 Feb 1936     That 'Skeely Skipper' Spence of Saugeen Schooner Days CCXXIX (229) _______ OF Capt. John Spence, pioneer of Southampton and the Saugeen Peninsula, skipper and owner of the Nemesis and other vessels, Mr. Albert Leeder gives ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 Mar 1936     Ships of the Huron Shore Schooner Days CCXXX (230) _______ "PRACTICALLY all the lumber, cordwood, railroad ties and paving cedar cut off the whole Saugeen Indian Peninsula in Bruce County was carried to the growing cities down ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Apr 1936     Switching Masts Schooner Days CCXXXIV (234) _______ THE New Dominion of Dresden was lying there in the Sydenham River, in need of a new mainmast. Her old stick had gone soft at the top, around the trestle-trees. It had to come ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Apr 1936     The cairn in question at the site for the launch of the FRONTENAC is at Bath, not Millhaven.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Apr 1936     Last Fore-'N-After At Cherry Valley Schooner Days CCXXXVII (237) _______ THE FORE-'N AFTER. Oh sailor on the steamer, With the comforts of a landsman, Did you ever vision those who broke the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 9 May 1936     Five Ships of Prince Edward County Schooner Days CCXXXIX (239) _______ THAT query list propounded by Dr. C. E. Stothers, inspector of public schools in Prince Edward County, regarding Prince Edward vessels keeps tickling ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 16 May 1936     The GOLD HUNTER Schooner Days CCXL (240) _______ AND then there was the Gold Hunter. There were two Goldhunters, in fact, and the first one was built by Quayle and Martin at Cleveland in 1856 and bought by Wm. Mather, of ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 23 May 1936     Old Cat Hollow I Schooner Days CCXLI (241) _______ "OUT OF CAT HOLLOW" has long been a title of pride on the lakes. You will search in motor maps and ancient atlases till your eyes ache, and you will never find either Cat Hollow ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 30 May 1936     Cat Hollow Craft II Schooner Days CCXLII (242) _______ SIXTEEN vessels belonged in Cat Hollow in the old days, and Cat Hollow sailors were to be found all over the lakes--and they are yet-- from Soup Harbor in Prince Edward County ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 6 Jun 1936     Cat Hollow III Captain's Coming Home Schooner Days CCXLIII (243) _______ STILL other Cat Hollow vessels were the Katie Eccles and the Blanche, sister schooners of saucy sheer, built at old Mill Point, which became ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 13 Jun 1936     In Old Cat Hollow IV Coal Scuttle Winner With The Maple Bottom Schooner Days CCXLIV (244) _______ WHEN they built vessels here they built 'em." The speaker's emphasis fell on the second syllable from the end ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 20 Jun 1936     Old Cat Hollow V. and Its Fore -'N' - After Fleet Schooner Days CCXLV (245) _______ STILL working to windward with the Cat Hollow fleet--there was the Mary Adelaide, of Consecon, loaded with 37,000 feet of lumber there for ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jun 1936     "Take Me Back To Old Cat Hollow" Schooner Days CCXLVI (246) _______ Take me back to Old Cat Hollow, where I spent my boyhood days, Where the bright sun gilded everything that met my childish gaze; There on ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Jul 1936     Port Credit Light's Last Spark Out The Harbor It Once Marked Schooner Days CCXLVII (247) AND so the last traces of Port Credit light have disappeared, like the vanishing of a high cloud which carries the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Jul 1936     "Walking Upon the Sea" Sixty-Two Years Ago To-Night Schooner Days CCXLVIII (248) _______ "AND in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking upon the sea." This ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Jul 1936     Now and Then Schooner Days CCL (250) _______ IT did the heart good to see topmasts and a topgallant yard in Toronto again, when the three-masted topsail schooner Alembic paid us a return visit this week with seal oil from St. ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Aug 1936     The PERSIA and her Pet Coon Schooner Days CCLII (252) _______ FORTY-FIVE years ago, when the "new" City Hall was building, a big trade was carried on in cut stone. Schooner after schooner swam in from Kelley's Island in Lake ...