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  • The Grand River Sachem 1917
    The Grand River Sachem 1917
    Text       War related articles found in The Grand River Sachem during 1917. For information on Soldiers see: Jan 3,10,17, Feb 14, Mar 7,14, Apr 25, May 16, 23, June 6,13, July 4, 11,18,25, Aug 8,15, 22,29, Sept 5, 12, 19, 26, Oct 3, 31, Nov 7,14,21 For information on Women in …
    Text     War related articles found in The Grand River Sachem during 1917. For information on Soldiers see: Jan 3,10,17, Feb 14, Mar 7,14, Apr 25, May 16, 23, June 6,13, July …
    Edinburgh Square Heritage and Cultural Centre
  • World War I veteran returns to scene of Vimy battle
    World War I veteran returns to scene of Vimy battle
    Text  Clause, Margaret; Brown Kirk, The Haldimand Press (Hagersville, Ontario), 1 Apr 1992, p. 1,11     ...
    Text  Clause, Margaret; Brown Kirk, The Haldimand Press (Hagersville, Ontario), 1 Apr 1992, p. 1,11   ...
    North Erie Shore Historical Society
  • Herb's Gallery
    Herb's Gallery
    TextImage  Martindale, Herb, The Haldimand Press (Hagersville, Ontario), 14 Oct 1982, p. 8     PDF available
    TextImage  Martindale, Herb, The Haldimand Press (Hagersville, Ontario), 14 Oct 1982, p. 8   PDF available
    North Erie Shore Historical Society
  • A Bit of a Row at Grimsby Beach
    A Bit of a Row at Grimsby Beach
    Text  Grimsby Independent, 1917     A BIT Of A ROW AT GRIMSBY BEACH ... . The usual quiet of Sunday evening was disturbed at GRIMSBY Beach on Sunday, July 8, when the Beach con- stable and several of the dock hands from the steamer Macassa got into a squabble. That was the first stage of …
    Text  Grimsby Independent, 1917   A BIT Of A ROW AT GRIMSBY BEACH ... . The usual quiet of Sunday evening was disturbed at GRIMSBY Beach on Sunday, July 8, when the Beach con- stable …
    Grimsby Chautauqua
  • 257th Overseas Battalion (Railway Construction) Article
    257th Overseas Battalion (Railway Construction) Article
    NewspaperText  Porcupine Advance, 14 Feb 1917, Section 1, p. 1     257th BATT. TO GO OVERSEAS THIS WEEK WITH 228TH BATT.: All Recruiting for 257th in Ontario Ordered Discontinued. - Lieut. P.F.K. Gallagher and his staff left here on Friday to report at the headquarters of the 257th Battalion in Toronto. The Militia Dept. has ordered all further recruiting for the …
    NewspaperText  Porcupine Advance, 14 Feb 1917, Section 1, p. 1   257th BATT. TO GO OVERSEAS THIS WEEK WITH 228TH BATT.: All Recruiting for 257th in Ontario Ordered Discontinued. - Lieut. P.F.K. Gallagher and his staff left here on Friday to …
    Timmins Public Library
  • Daily Palladium (Oswego, NY), Thursday, Aug. 9, 1917
    Daily Palladium (Oswego, NY), Thursday, Aug. 9, 1917
    TextNewspaper       Twelve Drowned in Lake Ontario - Schooner George A. Marsh Foundered Near Pigeon Island Yesterday Morning - Two Saved - Steambarge Ashore. Kingston, Ont., Aug. 9. - A thirty-five mile gale swept over Lake Ontario Tuesday night and out in this unusual August storm the coal laden ...
    TextNewspaper     Twelve Drowned in Lake Ontario - Schooner George A. Marsh Foundered Near Pigeon Island Yesterday Morning - Two Saved - Steambarge Ashore. Kingston, Ont., Aug. 9. - A thirty-five mile …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Globe (Toronto, ON), Friday Aug. 10,1917
    Globe (Toronto, ON), Friday Aug. 10,1917
    TextNewspaper       LAKE TOO ROUGH TO LAUNCH BOATS People on Board Schooner George A. Marsh Missed Safety by Few Feet TWO BODIES WASH ASHORE Thrilling Story of Wreck of Belleville Ship is Told By One of the Survivors Belleville, Aug. 9. Lake Ontario was at its wildest and wickedest when ...
    TextNewspaper     LAKE TOO ROUGH TO LAUNCH BOATS People on Board Schooner George A. Marsh Missed Safety by Few Feet TWO BODIES WASH ASHORE Thrilling Story of Wreck of Belleville Ship is …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Daily Intelligencer (Belleville, ON), Aug. 13,1917
    Daily Intelligencer (Belleville, ON), Aug. 13,1917
    TextNewspaper       *Note the different spelling of the name. McLellan' MacCLellan
    TextNewspaper     *Note the different spelling of the name. McLellan' MacCLellan
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), Saturday August, 11, 1917
    Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), Saturday August, 11, 1917
    TextNewspaper       INVESTIGATE INTO WRECK Dominion Government to Receive reports on Schooner The Government Steamer Grenville Has Left For the Place Where the Vessel Foundered- The Boat May Be Dynamited. An official investigation by the Dominion government into the foundering of the ...
    TextNewspaper     INVESTIGATE INTO WRECK Dominion Government to Receive reports on Schooner The Government Steamer Grenville Has Left For the Place Where the Vessel Foundered- The Boat May Be Dynamited. An official …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), Saturday Aug. 11, 1917
    Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), Saturday Aug. 11, 1917
    TextNewspaper       "Buster" Greaves Victim of Tragedy Body of Little Toronto Boy Recovered -- Wore Indian Suits Parents Bought Little George Francis "Buster" Graves, aged five, only child of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Graves of 51 Rosevear Ave., Little York, drowned in the Marsh disaster, was one ...
    TextNewspaper     "Buster" Greaves Victim of Tragedy Body of Little Toronto Boy Recovered -- Wore Indian Suits Parents Bought Little George Francis "Buster" Graves, aged five, only child of Mr. and Mrs. …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Watertown Herald (Watertown, NY), Saturday September 22, 1917
    Watertown Herald (Watertown, NY), Saturday September 22, 1917
    TextNewspaper       Tragedy on Lake Oswego Sept. 20 Six persons aboard the barge Hiawatha, including two women and a child are missing and are believed to have been drowned when the barge foundered early today during a southwest storm on Lake Ontario. Those believed drowned are ...
    TextNewspaper     Tragedy on Lake Oswego Sept. 20 Six persons aboard the barge Hiawatha, including two women and a child are missing and are believed to have been drowned when the barge …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Sat., Aug. 25, 1917
    Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Sat., Aug. 25, 1917
    TextNewspaper       Barge Arion Sinks in Lake ____ The barge Arion of the Sinennes-MacNaughton line was sunk with her cargo of 950 tons of coal, in Lake Ontario, 15 miles east of Oswego, this morning. The crew was saved. The tug Conqueror and her tow, the Arion and Cataract, were caught ...
    TextNewspaper     Barge Arion Sinks in Lake ____ The barge Arion of the Sinennes-MacNaughton line was sunk with her cargo of 950 tons of coal, in Lake Ontario, 15 miles east of …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Wed., April 25, 1917
    Daily Times (Oswego, NY), Wed., April 25, 1917
    TextNewspaper       Tug Association Formed in 1875 _______ Tugs Plowed Through Ice Field Which Had Formed About Vessels, May 5 _______ Commodore Thomas Crimmins, who was general manager of the Oswego Towing Association during its life, recalled today that the association was formed ...
    TextNewspaper     Tug Association Formed in 1875 _______ Tugs Plowed Through Ice Field Which Had Formed About Vessels, May 5 _______ Commodore Thomas Crimmins, who was general manager of the Oswego Towing …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Watertown Herald (Watertown, NY), May 12, 1917
    Watertown Herald (Watertown, NY), May 12, 1917
    TextNewspaper       Lake Boats Busy Thirteen boats carrying a total of 2,153,000 bushels of grain cleared from Fort William Thursday for lower lake and St. Lawrence river ports. The steamer Natironeo owned by A.B. Mc Kay of Hamilton, bound up light from Kingston, carried away two gates in Lock ...
    TextNewspaper     Lake Boats Busy Thirteen boats carrying a total of 2,153,000 bushels of grain cleared from Fort William Thursday for lower lake and St. Lawrence river ports. The steamer Natironeo owned …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Barge Splits Open; Crew of 8 in Peril
    Barge Splits Open; Crew of 8 in Peril
    NewspaperText  Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 26 Aug 1917, p. 11     BARGE SPLITS OPEN; CREW OF 8 IN PERIL _______ Men Narrowly Escape Being Drowned When Magnetic is Buffeted About. _______ Heavy Sea Makes Rescue work Difficult for the Towing Steamer Breitung. Buffalo, N.Y., Aug. 25.--Captain Knud Peterson, of the barge ...
    NewspaperText  Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 26 Aug 1917, p. 11   BARGE SPLITS OPEN; CREW OF 8 IN PERIL _______ Men Narrowly Escape Being Drowned When Magnetic is Buffeted About. _______ Heavy Sea Makes Rescue work Difficult for the Towing Steamer …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Barge Loaded With Ore founders Off Long Point
    Barge Loaded With Ore founders Off Long Point
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY), 27 Aug 1917, p. 10     BARGE LOADED WITH ORE FOUNDERS OFF LONG POINT _______ Crew Abandons the Magnetic When Steering Gear Becomes Disabled---Fills Rapidly. _______ The barge Magnetic, owned by the Juliett-Graverate Steamship company of Fairport, foundered two miles off Long Point, ...
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY), 27 Aug 1917, p. 10   BARGE LOADED WITH ORE FOUNDERS OFF LONG POINT _______ Crew Abandons the Magnetic When Steering Gear Becomes Disabled---Fills Rapidly. _______ The barge Magnetic, owned by the Juliett-Graverate Steamship company of …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Sinking of the Magnetic
    Sinking of the Magnetic
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Commercial, 28 Aug 1917, p. 7     Sinking of the Magnetic The barge Magnetic, which foundered in Lake Erie last Saturday, was insured for $30,000 in companies represented by Willcox, Peck & Hughes. Captain K. Pedersen and the members of the crew, who were here yesterday made statements. Henry Thorsen, a ...
    NewspaperText  Buffalo Commercial, 28 Aug 1917, p. 7   Sinking of the Magnetic The barge Magnetic, which foundered in Lake Erie last Saturday, was insured for $30,000 in companies represented by Willcox, Peck & Hughes. Captain K. Pedersen and …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Buffalo Commercial, 29 Aug 1917, p. 7
    Buffalo Commercial, 29 Aug 1917, p. 7
    NewspaperText       The Captain of the steamer R. B. Hall which arrived this evening reports passing a quantity of wreckage, bin, masts and hatches, about thirty miles west of Erie. Thought to be from the barge Magnetic.
    NewspaperText     The Captain of the steamer R. B. Hall which arrived this evening reports passing a quantity of wreckage, bin, masts and hatches, about thirty miles west of Erie. Thought to …
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Abyssinia (Schooner), U107221, aground, 19 Oct 1917
    Abyssinia (Schooner), U107221, aground, 19 Oct 1917
    TextNewspaper       Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss
    TextNewspaper     Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Total loss
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
  • Athens (Schooner), U107276, sunk, 7 Oct 1917
    Athens (Schooner), U107276, sunk, 7 Oct 1917
    TextNewspaper       Reason: sunk Lives: 5 Remarks: Total loss
    TextNewspaper     Reason: sunk Lives: 5 Remarks: Total loss
    Maritime History of the Great Lakes
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