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 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), 17 Jun 1939     Double Wreck on the Doorstep Schooner Days CCCCII (402) by C. H. J. Snider PROMPT as the morning's mail comes more information about the schooner Ontario, as requested last week. Captain John Williams, of 57 Isleworth avenue, veteran of ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 30 Jun 1939     Harbor Lights at the Saugeen Mouth Schooner Days CCCCIV (404) By C. H. J. Snider LAST WEEK was a big one in the life of Southampton, Ont., as a lakeport. The range lights into the Saugeen River, which enters Lake Huron here, and the fog signal ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 Jan 1933     BELLE SHERIDAN SCHOONER DAYS LXIX. (69) In old Albert Hall, on the east side of Yonge street, between Queen and Shuter, about where Scholes' Hotel is now, the Longshoremen's Union used to gather for concerts and dances when the hall ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 28 Jan 1933     The LADY ELGIN Schooner Days LXXII (72) Writing from Burlington, "I. S. B. " mentions that it was stated some time ago in this column that the schooner Col. Cook was one which attempted the voyage to Europe from the lakes in 1858; and the Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 7 Feb 1931     The grounding of the MARY ANN LYDON at Charlotte was in October 1908, not 1906. See the linked newspaper account.

      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: ...

      ARROWS OF EASTER Schooner Days X (10) In this Magistrate J. J. O'Connor, who went through the school of experience in the lake schooners before he became District Magistrate for Thunder Bay, tells of how fathers loved their sons and sailors loved their craft, ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Jun 1935     The White Woman of the ELIZA WHITE Schooner Days CXCIV (194) ___ LONG before I began to work for the club," said Capt. Jack Marks, as he rang the R.C.Y.C. launch Kwasind down to three-bell speed, so she wouldn't get there ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 13 Jul 1935     Turning Back the Clock - Builder's List Does It Schooner Days CXCVI (196) ___ OF COURSE all the vessels mentioned by Alexander Muir, in his interesting census of shipping on the lakes when he first saw these inland seas in ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jul 1935     Mid Rebels and Indians Pioneer Tar Plied Trade Schooner Days CXCVIII (198) ___ Further Adventures of Alexander Muir, Drydock Founder, When He Sailed a Century Ago to Take Indian Presents Out and Bring ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Aug 1935     End of Ancient "Adelaide" in Sou'west Gale and Snow Schooner Days CXCIX (199) ___ Alexander Muir, Pioneer Lakesman, Tells How it Felt to be Wrecked in Rebellion Times, When Port Dover Hadn't Even a ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 Sep 1935     Wife's Tragedy Made Husband's Fortune Schooner Days CCII (202) ___ Triple Drowning Was the Beginning Eighty-five Years Ago of the Great Drydock Enterprise at Port Dalhousie, Which is Still Going ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Aug 1935     Actually preceded no. CCII (202) because it was mis-numbered.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Aug 1935     Aboard a Pollywog Schooner Days CCIV (204) ___ Two Smokestacks, Two Boilers, No Steamgauge, No Watergauge, And No Rubber Gaskets -- Alexander Muir Describes Steam Conditions More Primitive Than Sailing ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Sep 1935     "Caledonias" and the Chiseller Schooner Days CCV (205) ___ THAT old chiseller L. Ontario, after wrecking the Caledonia, graved his mark on her bones with her own chain cable as indelibly as ever cow-hand branded a ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Oct 1935     For a more carefully documented account of the voyage of the steamboat OCEAN WAVE and her wreck see the link attached to this record.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 19 Oct 1935     OLIVIA's Luck Schooner Day CCX (210) _______ THIS OLIVIA of Toronto, whose fortunes we began to recall last week, following the uncovering of her remains in Picton harbor, was a nursery for many valiant mariners of the old ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 Nov 1935     Queer, Isn't It? Schooner Days CCXII (212) _______ IN the centre of the picture of Owen Sound's waterfront fifty years ago at fitting-out time, published in The Telegram last spring, was a prominent white hulled schooner with ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON)     Lake Drop Brings to Light Veteran of 1812 Schooner Days CCXIV (214) _______ BELIEVE it or not, the compiler of these records was swashing around in seaboots in the hold of an Eighteen-Twelver only this week. I walked ...