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      1907 DAILY BRITISH WHIG (available on microfilm at Kingston-Frontenac Public Library or Queen's University - Stauffer Library) Jan. 2, 1907 p.1 Golspie Victim Dead - Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 2nd - Neil (or Macdonald) one of the five sailors wrecked ...

      p.4 Picton, Jan. 2nd - John Tait, foreman ship builder and draughtsman, and four Picton shipcarpenters, are busily engaged at Deseronto on a new steamyacht, the cost of which it is estimated will be between $50,000 and $60,000, for Dr. Oronhyatekha, supreme chief ranger of the ...

      p.5 Pith of the News - The ship yards of the great lakes have under construction, for delivery, this year, seventy-one vessels. Forty-five of them are bulk freighters and four are passenger steamers. Fifteen of the vessels will be built by Detroit yards.

      p.5 Will It Sell - rumor that C.P.R. intends to absorb the R. & O. Navigation company; it would have to go before the shareholders of the company. [Montreal Witness] p.6 A Big Breakwater - Work Done and Hoped For At Cape Vincent, N.Y. - detailed history ...

      p.1 Bought Steamer - Toronto, Jan. 8th - The steamer Tadousac, owned by John Waldie and A.A. Wright, has been sold to the Northern Navigation company for $150,000. The navigation company will place the boat on the grain and package freight route to some port from Port Arthur and ...

      p.1 THE RAPIDS KING Was Launched At Toronto This Afternoon. Toronto, Jan. 9th - The new Richelieu & Ontario Navigation steamer, Rapids King, was launched at one o'clock this afternoon, from the yards of the Canadian Shipbuilding ...

      p.2 Only To The Island - It was expected that the steamer Pierrepont would be able to make a trip to Cape Vincent today, but the weather was against it. The vessel, however, made a trip to Wolfe Island, with twenty-five passengers for the Cape. Fire On A Boat - …

      p.2 Yawl Boat Floated Away - The yawl boat of the schooner Suffel, lying near Richardsons', was left out on the ice, and yesterday, it floated over to the R.M.C. point. Some men who were working on the boat secured another yawl boat and towed the missing one in. Incidents …

      p.4 Caught In Ice Floe - at Ogdensburg ice below dam broke up and lodged at bridge, flooding boathouses; steamer Armstrong broke a channel from St. Lawrence to bridge; the flood of ice caught the schooners and barges in winter quarters at Hannan's dock and snapping their lines ...

      p.1 Picton, Jan. 12th - The yearly returns at the custom house were announced to the Whig, today, and show Picton to be a goodly port. The receipts for 1906 totalled $27,413.05. Last year the receipts were $18,104.31, the increase of $9,308.74 bespeaks materially increased ...

      p.3 Cape Vincent, Jan. 15th - ...The first steamboat to arrive at the port of Cape Vincent in the year 1907, was the steamer Pierrepont, which arrived Tuesday, shortly after noon. The boat returned immediately..... p.5 LOCAL MARINE ...

      p.4 MARINE ASSOCIATION At the annual meeting of the Dominion Marine Association at Ottawa in Ottawa, J.A. Cuttle, the president, referred to the desire of the association to have hospital fees abolished. The following officers were elected: President, ...

      p.2 Boat Bought By M.T. Co. - The Montreal Transportation company, yesterday, purchased the steamer Winona, lately owned by R.O. and A.B. McKay, of Hamilton. This steamer was wrecked on Georgian Bay, and taken over by the underwriters, whose representative sold her at Cleveland, ...

      p.2 Lecture On Turbine Engines - given to Marine Engineer's Association by Queen's professor. Wind Played Havoc - King street breakwater destroyed as well as piers and wharves in west end; ice 25 feet high at west end of Macdonald Park. p.5 The ...

      nil Jan. 23, 1907 nil Jan. 24, 1907 p.3 Wolfe Island Council - Jan. 14th - ....Steamboat accounts ordered paid: C. Cummings, captain, $50; R. Berry, 26 days mate, $34.68; D.J. Leslie, one month engineer, $66.66; Geo. Sudder, thirty-one days fireman, ...

      p.2 BOARD OF WORKS (part) ....The chairman brought to the attention of the board the fact that the acting minister of marine had informed the city council last month that further soundings were to be taken in Kingston harbor regarding the proposed ...

      p.1 Made A Big Purchase - Detroit, Jan. 28th - The News-Tribune says: The Mutual Transit company, of Buffalo, has purchased the four steel steamers comprising the "Soo" Line, for a sum approximating $750,000. The four package freighters, which will bring the total of the Mutual's ...

      p.1 New Rail Carriers - Capt. Robert Fraser, marine superintendent of the Montreal Transportation company, and C.C. Morris, superintendent of transportation of the Dominion Iron and Steel company, have gone to England to inspect several vessels being built there; two of these ...

      p.1 NOTICE - The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Calvin Company, Limited, will be held at the office of the Company, at Garden Island, on Tuesday the 12th day of February, 1907, at one o'clock, p.m. Sandford C. Calvin, Secretary.

      p.5 Incidents of the Day - Thirty men are at work on the S.S. Fairmount, in the government drydock, the Kingston foundry having the contract of repairing a number of that big vessel's steel plates, which were injured, last fall, when she grounded. To Remove The Shoal - W.J. ...