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      Obituary Notes [Part Only] A Prince Among Shipbuilders Flags were flying at half-mast from several of the principal business places in St.Catharines on Saturday [April 24] and nearly all the vessels and steam craft on the ...

      New Steamers - Two new screw steamers named respectively Ontario and Quebec , have just been completed at Chatham , Ont., for

    New Steamers - Two new screw steamers named respectively Ontario and Quebec , have just been completed at Chatham , Ont., for

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Sarnia , May 6 - The new propeller Ontario , of Beatty's Royal Mail Line of steamers, arrived here from Chatham this morning, ...

      Chatham , June 13 - The new propeller built by Messrs. Simpson & Chisholm for a stock company here was successfully launched at three p.m. today and christened "

    Chatham , June 13 - The new propeller built by Messrs. Simpson & Chisholm for a stock company here was successfully launched at three p.m. today and christened "

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      An Interesting Relic. A Rocking Chair Made from the Keel of Vessel Built Sixty Years Ago. The sailing packet Duke of Richmond, 70 tons burthen, launched spring, 1820, at the foot of Frederick street, York; owned and sailed by Capt. Edward Oates; December, 1826, bound from ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), March 24, 1945     "Obey Orders if You Bust Owners" Schooner Days DCLXXXV (685) by C. H. J. Snider _______ EVERGREEN Capt. W. D. Graham of St. Catharines was, in 1879, the young mate of the schooner Grantham ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Sep 1936     Port Granby's Anchor - Some Ships It held And Some It Didn't Schooner Days CCLVI (256) _______ Port Granby pier was 125 yards long, from storehouse to pierhead, and two vessels could lie at it, head and stern, on the east ...

 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 …

      Oswego, Aug. 31 - A gale of unusual severity for this season of the year has prevailed here since Thursday. The schooner ALPHA, from Toronto, for this port went ashore, five miles below the harbor, and will probably be a total wreck. Her crew were taken off in the life-boat …

      Charlotte, N.Y., Oct. 17 - The schooner MARY of Chaumont, with a cargo of limestone, went ashore at 4 o'clock this morning. The crew were saved. The vessel is going to pieces.

      St. Catharines , July 26 - On Saturday afternoon last [July 24] Captain Miller launched from his yard in Port Dalhousie one of the largest vessels ever built on ...

 Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 May 1937     And Only the Dog Came Home Schooner Days no. CCXCIII (293) _______ Drawn 60 years ago in crayon is a picture of Parson's ship chandlery store at Oswego of the schooner Gilbert Molison, straight of stem and tall of spar, white, ...

 Toronto Telegram, Aug. 5, 1950     Whatchacallit? Schooner Days CMXLII (963) by C. H. J. Snider Forecastles as Found How to pronounce ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, January 6, 1951     New Year Passage Schooner Days CMLXXXV by C. H. J. Snider CAPT. TOM DONNELLY, head of the Donnelly Wrecking Co , and Capt. John Saunders, master mariner, jointly owned the white ...

      MARINE DISASTER THE "ORION" OF HAMILTON (The Oswego Palladium gives the following:) "From a conversation with Capt. Daniel Pease, of the lost vessel, we gather the following particulars: The ORION had a cargo of freestone from Cleveland, Ohio, for Brockville, ...

      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 …

 Toronto Telegram, 31 Jan 1953     Dream Came True Schooner Days MXC (1090) by C. H. J. Snider The Unheeded Bride--3 IT will be remembered, ...

 Toronto Telegram, 7 Feb 1953     How the Wreck Came to Light Schooner Days MXCI (1091) by C. H. J. Snider The Unheeded Bride--4 ON March 30, ...

      Oswego, Oct. 20 - The schooner NEW YORK, with lumber from Toronto to this port, went ashore last night, above the new breakwater. The crew were saved. - LATER : - The schooner NEW YORK, ashore above the piers, is breaking up, and will be a total wreck. The storm …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 Aug 1932     The Hill In The Bottom Of The Lake Schooner Days CII (102) Everyone has heard of the "hole in the bottom of the sea," but how many know of the volcano in the middle of Lake Superior? Capt. Jas. McConnel and other lake farers corresponding ...