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      A page taken from the Accounts Book of the Long Point School in Long Point, ON from 1933.

      A newspaper article written by Fred Williams titled, "A Notable Niagara Centennial" where he discusses the death of John Crooks and his experiences in the War of 1812. The newspaper the article was written in is unknown.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 23 Sep 1933     Torch Not !! Schooner Days CVI (106) Telegram Readers Win a Reprieve for Lyman M. Davis TELEGRAM readers have spoken and here is the answer--the Lyman M. Davis shall not perish in flames this year. She will ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 Sep 1933     S. O. S. The LYMAN M. DAVIS Schooner Days CIII. (103) "What a shame to burn that old schooner out at Sunnyside!" so many have protested to The Telegram, in letters and over the phone. The Telegram thinks so, too. "That old ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 9 Sep 1933     To the Rescue of the Schooner Schooner Days CIV (104) There is hope that the Lyman M. Davis will be saved. A tidal wave of correspondence is flowing in her favor. So many Telegram readers have written about her that it is not possible to published more than samples of …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 16 Sep 1933     Save? or Burn? Schooner Days CV (105) The battle over the Lyman M. Davis waxes hot, but she should be rescued. "Highland Beauty" good soul that he or she is, sends a five dollar bill in an envelope addressed to "Schooner ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 30 Sep 1933     Mary Jane of Bergen Schooner Days CVII (107) Though improvements have transformed it from a wide basin crystal clear to a turbid tank, concrete lined narrow, with ice and iceboating gone galley-west in the wake of smashing tugs and channel currents - still, what a ...

 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), 7 Jan 1933     BELLE SHERIDAN SCHOONER DAYS LXIX. (69) In old Albert Hall, on the east side of Yonge street, between Queen and Shuter, about where Scholes' Hotel is now, the Longshoremen's Union used to gather for concerts and dances when the hall ...

 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), 28 Jan 1933     The LADY ELGIN Schooner Days LXXII (72) Writing from Burlington, "I. S. B. " mentions that it was stated some time ago in this column that the schooner Col. Cook was one which attempted the voyage to Europe from the lakes in 1858; and the Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin ...

 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 ...