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      p.2 New Year's Frolic - a jolly-boat is fitted up as a ship from Garden Island and pulled on a sleigh. [Kingston News]

      (copied from British Whig) p.3 Steam packets To & From Bytown - In noticing the intention of the Government of Lower Canada to construct a lock at St. Ann's, the Bytown Gazette indulges unnecessarily in some ill-natured remarks respecting the Ottawa and Rideau Company. ...

      1842 BRITISH WHIG (articles copied from the Whig by various other newspapers as noted, the balance from originals at Ontario Archives and from a private collection.) (copied from the Whig by Bytown Gazette, Jan. 20, 1842) p.2 Arrival of ...

      (copied from Whig by Bytown Gazette, Aug. 25, 1842) p.2 Iron Steamer - An Iron Steamer for the use of the Royal Navy, on Lake Ontario, has lately arrived out from Home. It came, of course, in pieces, but the Government having sent out competent persons, it is to be …

      (copied from Whig by Bytown Gazette, June 22, 1843) p.2 Internal Communication - Notwithstanding the unusual number of vessels that have arrived this season, it would appear that either the quantity of goods brought out is less than usual, or that from some cause they ...

      (The Daily News has apparently not survived for the balance of the year, but the weekly version has - note name change - from originals at Queen's University, Special Collections.) p.2 A Melancholy Accident - On Wednesday last the brig Black Hawk, just returned from ...

      p.4 Loss of the Schooner Col. Cook - By a despatch received while we are going to press we learn that the schooner Col. Cook, en route for Detroit from Liverpool, ran on the rocks at Gaspe, near the mouth of the St. Lawrence, on the 24th, and is a …

      p.1 The Toronto Regatta Club - At a banquet given by this Club after being thoroughly beaten by the Yankees, sundry wet speeches were made by members of the Club; among others, the Commodore, better known as Dr. Hodder, without cause or provocation, in the absence of anyone to ...

      p.1 The Storm - ... A large American scow, laden with lumber, was driven ashore a few miles below the Town, and must become a total wreck. The schooner Mary Watson is a total wreck upon the north Pier. Her cargo consists of salt, pig-iron, and coal; the pig iron …

      p.2 The Rideau Canal - what is to be done with it? - new railroad has lowered use of canal. (1/2 column) Water Falling - level at Owen Sound is down two feet. [Owen Sound Times] Found Drowned - A sailor named Michael Kilroy, formerly, we believe, employed on board …

      p.1 The inquest held at Morrisburgh, before Doctor Worthington, Coroner, on the bodies of the unfortunate men who were killed by the bursting of the boiler of the Hercules, closed its investigation on the 22nd ult., after a patient and suitable inquiry, returning the following ...

      p.2 Inquest - On Monday night, at 10 o'clock, Mr. Coroner De l'Armitage held an inquest on the body of Hugh McCummisky, who came to his death from injury received while oiling the wheel of the freight steamer Ottawa. The inquest was held on board the steamer, and from the …

      p.1 To The Editor of the Iroquois Chief. Sir, - I notice in the last number of "The Chief" a letter from Mr. William McAuslan, Steamboat Inspector, written for the (as he would wish to make your readers believe) purpose of explaining some discrepancy in his evidence before ...

      p.2 Lake Steamers Again - resolution introduced at railroad convention at Cleveland to make rates of fares same by rail or by rail and water.

      p.4 Canadian Enterprise - A railroad is now being constructed in Canada on the banks of the Welland Canal for the purpose of facilitating the transportation of grain from Port Colborne on Lake Erie to Port Dalhousie on Lake Ontario. The Welland Canal being too narrow to admit ...

      p.1 Prospective Steamers - two to be built to run from Grand Haven to Milwaukee, 235' x 34' x 13'. [Buffalo Courier] p.2 Welland Canal Closed - By a telegram from St. Catherines, we learn that navigation on the Welland Canal is closed for the season by the ...

      p.4 Direct Trade Between Our Upper Lakes and Europe - During the past two years ten vessels, with a total tonnage of 3,600 tons, were built at Cleveland, Ohio and freighted by merchants of that city for English ports, their cargoes being chiefly staves and black walnut lumber. ...

      p.2 Fishing For Salmon Trout - fishing from inside tent, at Cape Vincent, through ice. [Northern Journal]

      p.4 The Sault Ste. Marie Canal - Gov. of Michigan recommends finishing of work.

      p.2 American Naval Intelligence - nine commissioned or warranted men attached to str. Michigan on the Lakes. p.3 Died - At Point Frederick on 22nd Feb., James Machray, Foreman of Stores, Military Store Department, H.M. Dockyard, 57 years old. ...