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      Survey map of the Second Welland Canal created by the Welland Canal Company showing the area through Humberstone. Identified structures associated with the Canal include Spoil Banks, Towing Path, Back Ditches and Culvert. Surveyor measurements and notes can be seen in red and black ink and pencil. Local area landmarks …

      Survey map of the Second Welland Canal created by the Welland Canal Company showing the areas in and around Petersburg and Humberstone. Identified structures associated with the Canal include North and South Back Ditches, Bridge Tender's Building, Towing Path, Old Back Ditch, and Covered Drain. Features of the First Welland …

      Henry Rutttan served as Lieutenant in the War of 1812. Distinguished conducted at Lundry's Lane where he was wounded. Henry was married to Mary Jones, the daughter of Elias Jones, one of Cobourg's first settlers. By 1820 he became a member of the Legislative Assembly. In 1827 he became the …

      A cleaned up version of the map is also included in this record, courtesy of Mr. David Hobden. Click on "select" under the title above here. You can move the image around with your mouse to focus on certain parts of the photograph, or use the slider to zoom out …

      Some evidence suggests that this was published in a contemporary Detroit newspaper.

      The Peytonia, considered to be the second steamer in the passenger trade on Lake Winnebago, was built about 1847; 150 feet long, 30 feet wide. It carried many thousands of early settlers into the Fox river valley before the railroads came. It was wrecked by ice, April, 1858, while on …

     

      Pencil on bristol board, with ruled border of pencil

      Photograph of pencil drawing

      Pencil on bristol board, with ruled border of pencil

      Pen & ink drawing, after a pencil drawing.

      Pencil on wove paper

      Pen & ink drawing.

      Graphite on paper

      Graphite on paper

      Pen and black ink over traces of moderate greenish blue pencil on wove paper. Laid down on album page

      The MILWAUKIE was chartered to the Upper Canadian administration in 1838-39 and operated as the SIR JOHN COLBORNE.

      PHOENIX was destroyed by fire off Sheboygan, WI, Lake Michigan, on 21 November 1847.

      Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. S. S. VANDALIA, Passing Through the Old Welland Canal This vessel was built at Oswego, N.Y., in 1841, and was propelled with the Ericsson Patent Screw Propeller. She was the first commercially operated propeller vessel in the world, and first on ...

      "Kelley's and Bass Islands Showing the Harbors of Refuge in their vicinity being an extract from the Survey of the West End of Lake Erie made under the direction of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, War Department in obedience to Acts of Congress requiring the Survey of the Northern ...