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      Spring Walk II Contrary to general expectation, the opening of Kingston Harbor has been greatly accelerated by favorable circumstances, and the consequence is, that it has taken the shipping interest somewhat by surprise. Every body is ...

      Spring Walk III THE WHARVES AND WHARFINGERS OF KINGSTON: As various changes have taken place this season in the location of the several Forwarders and Wharfingers, a concise notice of such establishment may be found useful, and not out of place in this Our ...

      Spring Walk I One could think that fine weather would never come again. Winter lingering in the lap of Spring conveys but a faint idea of the stern reality of this Twelfth of April. Although the day is tolerably fine and the sun shines warmly, yet the roads are still …

      Spring Walk II It is mighty tedious entirely this writing of "Annual Walk." The originality of the thing could have afforded some counterbalance to its want of general interests but that was marred years ago by the '

    Spring Walk II It is mighty tedious entirely this writing of "Annual Walk." The originality of the thing could have afforded some counterbalance to its want of general interests but …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Spring Walk III The "Opening of Navigation" makes but little progress, so does the "Annual Spring Walk of the British Whig." The season is dead against both. On St. George's Day, in ordinary years, the communication with Montreal and Quebec is usually perfect; the several ...

      Spring Walk IV Here is the end of April, the weather cold, wet and unpleasant, and the "Walk" scarcely half begun. Nobody feels any inclination to walk about or look at anything--to crowd round a fireplace or hot stove is far more pleasant and infinitely more congenial. But ...

      Spring Walk VII The "Walk" is really becoming interesting and agreeable--so many things to see and write about, and such charming weather to [do] it in. Last Saturday was a delightful day; it was the day on which the first steamers came up this season from

    Spring Walk VII The "Walk" is really becoming interesting and agreeable--so many things to see and write about, and such charming weather to [do] it in. Last Saturday was a …

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

      Spring Walk VIII Having disposed of all the Steamers, all the Hotels, all the Manufactories, and all the other matters, more immediately connected with the resumption of business in the Spring, it may not, be remiss, ere this "Annual Walk" is closed, to say a few works on the ...

      Spring Walk I It has been too much the custom to underrate the commercial importance of good old Kingston. Let any one walk through the city at the present time, and he will see enough to convince him that Kingston is one of the busiest places in all Canada; and …

      Spring Walk II It is so rarely that we have it in our power to say a good word in favor of the Corporation of Kingston that it would be both a sin and shame not to do it. The streets are remarkably clean, considering the season of the year. …

      NOTE: This is a translation of a portion of the Nouveau voyage d’un pais plus grand que l’Europe (Utrecht, 1698) a published description of the very early exploration of the Great Lakes region by French adventurers by the Belgian Recollet missionary father Louis Hennepin. It describes the building and short …

      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.

      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 ...

      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 ...

      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 ...

      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 ...