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      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, 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), 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 ...

 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 ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 19 Sep 1931     How 'Captain Jim' Kept Oakville Light Burning SCHOONER DAYS XXVIII (28) Jim Quinn of Oakville--not to be confused with Jimmy Quinn of Toronto, who is still briskly commanding one of the R. C. Y. C. steamers--was born in Oakville, sailed the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Sep 1931     Putting on the Dog Schooner Days XXIX (29) There was never any general objection to sailing on a Friday, on the lakes, although many captains piously refrained from beginning a voyage on a Sunday. None was ever the worse for that. But ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 10 Oct 1931     The "C. T. JENKINS" in this story was in fact the ISAAC G. JENKINS.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 16 Nov 1931     OAKVILLE'S GRAND OLD MARINER Schooner Days XXXI (31) Capt. Maurice Fitzgerald, of Oakville, is one of the last of the splendid old timers who sailed the lakes when sailing meant handling canvas, hauling on ropes, and complete dependence upon the breath of Boreas for ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Feb 1931     Canada's "No. "1" Schooner Days III (3) Magistrate J.J. O' Connor, of Port Arthur, mariner in his youth, retained a keen interest in the history of the sailing commerce of the lakes. Before his death last August he wrote something of the tow-boats which became a vital ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 Mar 1931     Scarlet Whiskers Schooner Days VI (6) Magistrate J. J. O'Connor, of Port Arthur, tells of meeting the Prime Minister of the Queen of the North. Coming down the lakes a few years ago on the palatial passenger steamer Huron I ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Mar 1931     Queen of the North Schooner Days VII (7) District Magistrate J.J. O'Connor's account of the forest monarch he met in his youth when his schooner put into Port Burwell in a Lake Erie gale. This Tom Wrong, whose bones grinding in ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 21 Mar 1931     The Sweepstakes Schooner Days VIII (8) The late Magistrate J. J. O'Connor, of Port Arthur, pumped most of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario through her before she sank near the old Queen's Wharf. He here relates the story an d tells how he became first mate. Has anyone a ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Apr 1931     A Sailors' Strike Schooner Days XII (12) Account by late Magistrate J. J. O'Connor, of Port Arthur, of how he almost started one and certainly stopped it, when he was before-the-mast in the Toronto grain trade -- "Big Money in the fall, sixty years ago, and how it was ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Apr 1931     The EMERALD Mystery Schooner Days XIII (13) Magistrate O'Connor's mention last week of big profits in the "last trip in the fall," when he was a sailor, was seasoned with the reminder that there were big losses, too. This recalled to another "sailor of the sail" living ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 May 1931     Eight Days Across!: Schooner Days XIV (14) Recent reference in "Schooner Days" to the Jessie Drummond, recalls the following narrative of the late Capt. Robert Maw, well-known even to recent Torontonians from his boathouses at Sunnyside and the Humber. Capt. Maw died ...