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 Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), 17 Dec 1932     Had Long Career As Marine Engineer Former Sec'y-Treas. of Rockport Navigation Co. and Vice-Pres. T. I. Navigation Co. The death occurred at the home of James Hickey, 94 College Street, on Friday of James Gillie, well-known marine engineer in his eighty-ninth year. Deceased ...

      INVESTIGATE INTO WRECK Dominion Government to Receive reports on Schooner The Government Steamer Grenville Has Left For the Place Where the Vessel Foundered- The Boat May Be Dynamited. An official investigation by the Dominion government into the foundering of the ...

      Commencement of 'the Lake' Navigation.-- Lake Erie is open 'clear' to Buffalo. The news was brought by one of the American Steam-boats last week which sailed downwards on the Canada shore and returned up through the middle of the lake. We have received no intelligence yet as to the opening …

      Spring Walk III Kingston Harbor was never so full of vessels of all classes, as it has been all the past winter. Taking those at Portsmouth and Garden Island into account, full one hundred steamers, ships, brigs, schooners, and mammoth barges have been laid up for the ...

      Spring Walk IV (original marked III) The intention of the Grand Trunk Railroad Company to apply to the Legislature for an additional Two Millions of money has emboldened the Steamboat and Forwarding Interest to put in a claim for a Parliamentary Aid. They say, and they say ...

      Spring Walk VI The "Walk" for 1857 would have been ended long ere this, had not a desire existed to see the Through Mail Line of River and Lake Steamers in full operation ere the Sixth and Last Number was written. The slight accident to the Passport has retarded this …

      Spring Walk I For very many years prior to the completion of the G.T. Railroad, it has been our annual custom to take a bird's eye view of the various steamers, brigs, schooners, and other Lake and River craft, preparing for the Spring's business, and embody the same in ...

      Spring Walk I "A Walk Along the Wharves" There was a time when the Spring Walks of the British Whig were read and criticized; but that's a long time ago. Railroads and Propellers have destroyed the Forwarding Trade of good old Kingston, and a newswriter might traverse ...

      Spring Walk III "The River and Lake Line of Mail Steamers" As the several Boats belonging to this well-known line are now on their respective trips, the opening of the Lachine and St. Lawrence Canals having set them in motion, it may be as well to refresh our readers' ...

      Spring Walk I The Editor is too much of a cripple just now to take his annual Spring Walk, that must be postponed until he is able to stump about the Wharves and Docks again.--Meanwhile our readers must content themselves with a brief account of what is going forward in …

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand I PORTSMOUTH The thriving little village of Portsmouth is as busy now as it can be, and Hatter's Bay, too, is a scene of bustle. Ship carpenters, blacksmiths, and laborers are running here and there; while the sound of the hammer may be ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand I Seeing that the opening of navigation is at hand, and that there is little time to be lost, "Fresh Hand" will leave the consideration of the lions of Kingston, and will describe business at the different wharves, &c.; The stranger will ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand V BAKER'S WHARF.--The brig New York lies here, commanded by Capt. Ratcliffe, of this city. She is having new planking, and new timbers are being placed in her stern. She has new taffrail, rails all round, and is being caulked and painted so as …

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand VI GARDEN ISLAND.--Delighted with what he had seen in Kingston, the Stranger was desirous of going over to Garden Island, and the only thing which could reasonably prevent him would be the condition of the ice. "Fresh Hand" was fearful of falling ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand VII MESSRS. BERRY & CO.'S ELEVATORS. --There is no establishment of the kind in Canada which can at all equal that of Messrs. Berry & Co. of Kingston, for the facilities for loading vessels with grain are greater here than in any other ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand I Without the "Stranger," this year, has "Fresh Hand" been obliged to commence his "Spring Walks," for the former, it appears, has not returned from his world-wide tour. Whither he has gone, during the last twelve months, and how he has spent ...

      Spring Walks by a Fresh Hand III PORTSMOUTH Yesterday "Fresh Hand" paid a visit to his old friends, the ship-carpenters, at Portsmouth, and found them all as busy as ever, mallet in hand, driving in the bolt with unerring stroke. Last year he called the attention of the ...

      Spring Walk by a Fresh Hand IV THE ATLANTIC AND COMMERCIAL WHARVES. A change has taken place this Spring on these Wharves. The Atlantic Wharf, which was leased to Mr. Patrick Doyle last year, and on which Messrs. Chaffey Brothers, had offices and ...

      Spring Walk I THE STEAMER BANSHEE.--The first vessel this season, of the Inland Navigation Company, alias Through Line--to make a move, is the fine and favorite steamer, the Banshee. She has notified a start on Thursday next, up the lake. The Banshee has just come off the ...

      Spring Walk by the Old Hand II THE WHARFS OF KINGSTON The Wharfs or Wharves or Kingston, which should it be? Wharfs is decidedly the best word, but not so often used as Wharves, tho' infinitely more English. Well, the Wharfs of Kingston are the subject of this day's ...