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 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Jul 1933     A SCHOONER SCOW AND A THOROUGHBRED Schooner Days XCVII (97) The Doctor's trick at the wheel is not yet out. The Old Man is still below and pounding his ear. Here is a yarn about a hooker that was ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Jul 1933     Patchwork Hooker of Long Point Bay Schooner Days XCVIII (98) WHITBY town council has decreed that the remnants of the wreck of the little schooner, Island Queen, must be removed from Whitby harbor. The wreck has been described as ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 21 Jan 1933     Mosquito Fleet or Vulgar Jim's Vengeance SCHOONER DAYS LXXI (71) Nearly all of them scows of from 20 to 50 tons, and manned largely by French-Canadians, the "Lake St. Clair Mosquito Fleet" carried cordwood, tan bark, slabs, jags of lumber ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Feb 1933     Brothers Under the Horns Schooner Days LXXIII (73) This story of the Brothers of Bronte, came from Capt Joseph Williams, of Simcoe Point, Pickering, hale and eighty-two, one afternoon during this last Christmastide, while he was visiting his sister, Miss Daisy Williams, ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Feb 1933     More Brothers Schooner Days LXXIV (74) ONE of the many pleasures in running over the names of the seventeen hundred and forty-two lake vessels listed by this compiler is the recurrence of the name "Brothers." There was the small schooner ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Feb 1933     Birthday Party Schooner Days LXXV (75) Capt. Joseph Williams recalls when they loaded flour in Duffins' Creek, and a Grand Trunk engine nipped the nose off a schooner that climbed the Esplanade. --Worthy scion of worthy pioneer from Kew on the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Mar 1933     HALF-PAST-SIX SCHOONER DAYS LXXVII. (77) It must have been a fearful gale on the 27th of November, 1860, for the old file of the Toronto Leader thus outlines the night's ravages, in a Kingston despatch: -- "Barque St. ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Mar 1933     OUT O' PORT HOPE Schooner Days LXXVIII (78) R. W. Johnson, chartered accountant, of St. Thomas writes of his boyhood recollections of lake vessels interestingly to friends that it seems a pity followers of Schooner Days should not have ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Mar 1933     PIRATES IN CHAINS AND ST. CATHARINES SLAVER ALEXANDER MUIR SAW Schooner Days LXXX. (80) First drydock to be built on the Welland Canal, and now the last of eight which have flourished on that Great Lakes highway, Muir ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Mar 1933     "ALEXANDER" ABROAD SCHOONER DAYS LXXXI (81) Continuing the adventure story of the Muir Brothers and their drydock, comes the voyaging of the first vessel they built on Lake Ontario and sent overseas with their own cargo. CAPTAIN ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 1 Apr 1933     OCEAN WAVE and Cherry Valley Schooner Days LXXXII (82) TWO WEEKS from to-morrow, on the 23rd of April, when the Prince Edward county sailors will be beginning a new season, there will be one more of those mariners' services in the little church in Cherry Valley, which have ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 15 Apr 1933     Sunday Scorching Schooner Days LXXXIII (83) Seventy-eight years ago this Easter Sunday Port Credit was swept by its first great fire. Seventy-eight years is a long time, and yet Abram Block, J. P., present day pillar in the Port Credit community, ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Apr 1933     "PLEASE, GRANDMA TAKE CARE OF MY BABY" Schooner Days LXXXIV. (84) Prince Edward is an old settled county, mainly of United Empire Loyalist stock, and the cemetery at Cherry Valley looks like that of a metropolis, from the many shafts of granite and marble ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 6 May 1933     Great "A" Fleet Schooner Days LXXXVI. (86) All the vessels built by the Muir Brothers at Port Dalhousie on their own account had names beginning with "A." The only exceptions in the Muir fleet were the Niagara, which they built in the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 13 May 1933     The ARK Schooner Days LXXXVII (87) There is a story with whiskers on it that a certain sea captain once picked up a turtle swimming in the sea off the Galapagos, and on the turtle's back was a cuneiform inscription, translated by the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 20 May 1933     More About Muirs' SCHOONER DAYS LXXXVIII (88) Continuing the tale of the dynamic Alexander and his sturdy brethren, who made Port Dalhousie famous by their shipyard and drydock, we come upon their barque Advance and her ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Jun 1933     "Port Muir" Schooner Days XC (90) It has been suggested, and with reason, that a suitable recognition of the enterprise of the Muir brothers, pioneer lake mariners, who did so much to develop the marine industry on fresh water, would be to name the new Lake Ontario ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 10 Jun 1933     "Agreed by all Hands" Schooner Days, XCI (91) "Behold how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity" sang the Psalmist. The five Muir Brothers, whose Port Dalhousie drydock still flourishes, preached a lifelong sermon on this ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Jun 1933     "Blue Banner of the Covenant" Schooner Days XCII (92) How its faraway influence worked out in the operation of the famous Muir Brothers' drydock at Port Dalhousie. ALL the Muirs were ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Jul 1933     End of the Edward Blake Schooner Days XCV (95) And some others as well. That invaluable correspondent, John Rudolph Redfern Macdonald, Goderich fisherman, better and more briefly known as "Red," comes on deck with the fate of the schooner ...