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      Other Names: Alliance; Later Registration: U.S.A. (1838) as Alliance Approx. 120x40. Owned by J. Hamilton, St. Catharines. Built by Lovering, Chippewa Ont. and launched 09/06/32. Engine by Boulton & Watt, London, originally in "Frontenac" then "Alciope". Re-engined 1835: 48x84 by St. Mary's Foundry, Montreal. Cabins incomplete first season, finished that …

      First Rebuild: Propulsion: Sidewheel Rebuilt: Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1833 Approx. 80' Owned by R. Drummond; to Ottawa & Rideau Forwarding Co. 1835. Used Kingston-Bytown-Grenville; occasionally St. Lawrence towboat. Had 32 berths (before lengthening), carried 30 cabin passengers (afterwards). Boiler exploded 01/05/38 Grenville, 2 killed; repaired. Maiden voyage about 20/07/32. …

      135x25x10 Owned by A. Jones, Brockville; to Calvin Cook & Counter 1845. Built by J. Wood, Gananoque and launched 29/10/31. First engine by Ward Bros., Montreal; after 1840 55x96 by Bennett & Henderson, Montreal. Used on Lake Ontario and Upper St. Lawrence. Had 30 berths in gents' cabin below, 18 …

      Approx. 90x18 Owned by C. Thompson. Launched 20/10/32. When launched proved to draw too much water to serve most ports on Lake Simcoe; unused and rebuilt that winter; maiden voyage 01/05/33. Still unsatisfactory and officially rebuilt barge 1835, but abandoned near Bradford.

      Other Names: Transit (1835); First Rebuild: Propulsion: Sidewheel Dimensions: 129 x 20 -- -225 tons Rebuilt: Niagara, Ontario, Canada in 1838 Second Rebuild: Official Number: ----- Propulsion: Sidewheel Rebuilt: Garden Island, Ontario, Canada 130x26x8 Owned by A. N. McNab, Hamilton; to H. Richardson, Toronto 1835; to M. & W. E. …

      Approx. 108x19x8 (width over paddle boxes 32') Owned by Ottawa & Rideau Forwarding Co. Built by Shea & Merritt (of Montreal), probably at Hawkesbury. Engine by Bennett & Henderson, Montreal. Had 26 berths. Note: Length often given as 180'. This arises from a misprint in the account of the launch …

      Other Names: Newcastle (1837); Dimensions unknown. Owned by J. Bethune; to W. Boswell, Cobourg 1837. Engine by "Mr. Perry", York Steam Engine Works, Toronto. Used on Rice Lake and Otonabee River. Launched 11/06/32.

      Approx. 130x18. Owned by H. Dickinson & Co. Engines (2) by Fuller & Copeland, Hartford Conn. Sternwheel. Had 20' ladies' cabin, 43' gents' cabin. Had insufficient boiler capacity; never entirely satisfactory for intended service (Prescott–Dickinson's Landing.) "…in passing from an eddy to the strongest current in Rapide Plat [easiest of …

      Dimensions unknown. Built for H. Dickinson & Co., to J. DeWitt 1834. Built by A. Young, Coteau du Lac, Que. and launched 21/04/32. Engine from "Cornwall". Ferry. Boiler exploded 20/11/41 Châteauguay, Que. "The wretched and unsafe condition of the boat has for a long time been the subject of loud …

      First Rebuild: Propulsion: Sidewheel Dimensions: 173 x 27 -- -433 tons Rebuilt: in 1841 177x29x10 Owned by Montreal & Quebec Towboat Co. Built by Shea & Merritt, Montreal and launched 12/06/32. Engines (2) 96" stroke by Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool England. Claimed to be largest and fastest steamboat in …

      140x24x8 Owned by St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. Built by Shea & Merritt, Montreal and launched 09/05/32. Engine by Bennett & Henderson, Montreal, "Improved" 1834. Originally Longueuil ferry, soon Montreal-Quebec. Ashore for some time early June 1833 Berthier Que.

      114x25x9 Owned by The Ferryboat Co.; to "United Companies" (combination of The Towboat Co. and St. Lawrence Steamboat Co.) 1835. Built by Shea & Merritt, Montreal and launched 15/05/32. Engine by Bennett & Henderson, Montreal (passed on to "Charlevoix"). Built as Laprairie ferry, Montreal-Quebec after 1834. "To be fitted with …

      105x21x10. Owned by General Mining Association, London England. Arrived Sydney Mines, N. S. 07/04/33, 44 days from Plymouth, England. Used Pictou-Charlottetown-Miramichi. Back to England 1842, lost at sea May 1857.

      101x21x9 Owned by The Towboat Co. Built by Shay & Merritt, Montreal 1832. Probably rebuilt to barge about 1842

      92x16x7 Owned by J. Whitney, Saint John N. B. Used on Saint John and Petitcodiac Rivers. Launched 12/05/32. Tried to be first steamboat above Fredericton 14/05/33, failed; tried again 26/05 and gave up after 45 miles.

      1832 KINGSTON CHRONICLE (available on microfilm at Kingston Frontenac Public Library, and at Queen's University - Stauffer Library, unless otherwise stated) *Note: July to December is missing. Articles copied from the Chronicle by other newspapers during this period ...

      p.3 Notice - The Stockholders of the John By are requested to pay into my hands on or before the 10th Feb'y next, the 8th instalment of 10 per cent on their respective shares. David John Smith, Treasurer. Kingston, 6th Jan., 1832. ...

      p.2 On Wednesday night the enginery for the steam-boat John By arrived here in sleighs from Montreal. On the opening of the navigation it is expected that she will be perfectly completed. Messrs. McPherson & Co. of Prescott have rented Mr. Cartwright's Stores, in ...

      p.3 GOVERNMENT CONTRACT. STEAM-BOAT TRANSPORT. Notice is hereby given, that Sealed Tenders will be received at the Commissariat Office, Kingston, until 12 o'clock of Monday, the 27th day of February next, from such persons as may be ...

      p.2 Rideau Canal - "A Friend to Justice and Merit" has published at the Patriot Office what appears to us to be a remarkably fair and candid statement in the form of a pamphlet entitled "Notices of the Rideau Canal." The author who is evidently a scholar and a gentleman, …