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 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), 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), 7 Oct 1933     Proctor's "Gunboats" Schooner Days CVIII (108) Chatham, Oct.2. - Was there a third British gunboat sunk in the River Thames during the war of 1812? If so, it is thought an old hulk, lying in the river bed near here is the remains of the old fight ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Oct 1933     Scowlin' and Partner Schooner Days CIX (109) "MOST generally there was a reason for a sailorman having a nickname," The Long Old Man observed. "Oncet in awhile he sort of accumulated one as he went along. For instance there was Scowlin', who ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 21 Oct 1933     More of Procter's Gunboats and one "Bull of The Woods" Schooner Days CX. (110) Victor Lauriston, Canadian man of letters, author of "The Twenty-first Burr," and an authority on the history of the War of 1812, has an article in the Chatham News ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Nov 1933     Port Credit's Stone Hookers Schooner Days CXII (112) One of these days we are going to publish a list of all the stonehookers we have seen or heard of, out of the Credit, or any place else along the lake shore. ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Nov 1933     "One of the Victims" is in fact a picture of the MATAAFA after the storm of 1905.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Nov 1933     Those Stonehookers Schooner Days CXV (115) The Great Gale of 1913 interrupted our yarn about the stonehookers of Port Credit last week, as it did the career of many a proud steamer twenty years ago; but here we attempt to fulfill the promise ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Dec 1933     More Stone Hookers Schooner Days CXVI (116) Having waded through the alphabet to the end of the I's, let us look over the names of some more of the "mosquito fleet" that used to carry cordwood, sand, gravel and ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Dec 1933     Last of the Stonehookers Schooner Days CXVII (117) All things come to an end sometime and somewhere, and the list of the stonehooker fleet which was once the characteristic of Port Credit, here continues from ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 16 Dec 1933     Scow Times in Prince Edward Schooner Days CXVIII (118) CAPT. NELSON PALMATEER, one of Prince Edward County's grand old men of the sea, was in Toronto recently, full of plans for next year's annual sailor's service in ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 23 Dec 1933     Christmassing on the Main Duck Schooner Days CXIX (119) Capt. Nelson Palmateer, Prince Edward County veteran, here tells readers of The Telegram how he escaped doing this sixty years ago, and how Dick Grant had a ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 19 Aug 1933     HE BUILT 120 SHIPS--LOUIS SHICKLUNA --AND ALL WERE GOOD By C.H.J. Snider It is a recognized mark of great skill for a ship carpenter to hold a billet of wood "under his toe" and hew a wedge with his adze, using "head high strokes.' Legend has it that Louis ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 6 May 1933     Great "A" Fleet Schooner Days LXXXVI. (86) All the vessels built by the Muir Brothers at Port Dalhousie on their own account had names beginning with "A." The only exceptions in the Muir fleet were the Niagara, which they built in the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 13 May 1933     The ARK Schooner Days LXXXVII (87) There is a story with whiskers on it that a certain sea captain once picked up a turtle swimming in the sea off the Galapagos, and on the turtle's back was a cuneiform inscription, translated by the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 20 May 1933     More About Muirs' SCHOONER DAYS LXXXVIII (88) Continuing the tale of the dynamic Alexander and his sturdy brethren, who made Port Dalhousie famous by their shipyard and drydock, we come upon their barque Advance and her ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Jun 1933     "Port Muir" Schooner Days XC (90) It has been suggested, and with reason, that a suitable recognition of the enterprise of the Muir brothers, pioneer lake mariners, who did so much to develop the marine industry on fresh water, would be to name the new Lake Ontario ...