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 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), 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), 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 ...

      Thomas C. Goble Thomas C. Goble, 78, widely known resident of the First ward, died early Wednesday morning in Utica , after an illness that started about five years ago, and became serious the ...

      When Grant Played Checkers at Oswego To the Editor of The Post-Standard: I read your editorial concerning Grant at Galena with interest. Your request for stories of Grant while stationed at Sacket's Harbor brought to mind a story I have heard my father tell. He told that my ...

      Record Cargo At Oswego Canal officials witnessed the docking Saturday night at the Oswego grain elevator of the largest lake steamship that ever came into Oswego harbor. The steamer William F. ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), July 4, 1931     Great Gale of 1880 Schooner Days No. XXIII For forty years almost, Capt. David Reynolds was master of the Royal Canadian Yacht club launches Esmeralda, Hiawatha and Kwasind. His trips across the Bay, on their half-hour schedule, would have taken him twice around the ...

 Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), Jan. 31, 1931     Schooner Days No. 1 A White Squall Many a good story had the late Magistrate J.J. O'Connor, of Port Arthur. District Magistrate for Thunder Bay, to tell of schooner days on the Great Lakes. He was an Ontario County boy and went sailing early out of Whitby. Here is one …

 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 ...