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 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 6 Jan 1934     "Fisty of the Christina" Schooner Days CXX (120) Here follows the fate of "Fisty" Masterson, and his schooner of rebellion times in Toronto as promised last week. The story is as told by the late Capt. William ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 1 Sep 1934     First Into Port Schooner Days CLIV (154) Our worthy Harbor Commission has joined the great company of centennial year celebrants with a publication which does its compilers and the city and harbor great credit. It is known as "The Port and Harbor of ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Mar 1934     Rigs, Salt and Fresh Schooner Days CXXVIII (128) ON the Great Lakes rigs of sailing vessels differed sharply from those on salt water. Sailors had a laugh the other day over some Innocent letterpress about the model of "the Schooner Tern." Those of ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Mar 1934     The Sunday-Keeper Schooner Days CXXXII (132) THAT grand old Scottish mariner, Capt. Alexander Ure, now navigating here in Toronto in the serene sunset glow of his eighty-eighth year, had his share of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Feb 1934     The reference to the Macintosh brothers owning the GREAT BRITAIN is incorrect. It was always owned by the Hon. John Hamilton of Queenston and later Kingston. The Macintosh brothers did have a stake initially in the steamboat COBOURG, however.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Jul 1934     Regatta of 'Sixty Five Schooner Days CXLVII (147) "THE HOOKER MEN were great for racing," said Abram Block, J.P., the patriarch of Port Credit, one afternoon last year before he passed on to exceeding great reward, "but of all the races I sailed ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 Jul 1934     The THREE FRIENDS Schooner Days CXLVI (146) FOR years and years there lay on the lake beach at the mouth of Duffin's Creek, down Pickering way, a sixteen-foot yawlboat, such as schooners used to swing on their davits astern. It was so dried out ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 7 Apr 1934     Eva and the RAPID CITY Schooner Days CXXXIII (133) ALTHOUGH It said "Rapid City of Toronto" on her stern, the schooner which bore the name was not intended as a comment upon the speed of life in the Queen City of the West in the gay nineties, when ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Aug 1934     Shooting the Rapids Schooner Days CLIII (153) THE Calvin barque, Garden Island, was neither the first nor the last square-rigger built on Lake Ontario for service on the Seven Seas. E. W. Berry built several at Kingston. His last was the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 10 Mar 1934     The Highland Chief Schooner Days CXXIX (129) It might be impolitic to say how long ago long ago it was, but it wasn't this century, when a black two-masted schooner used to come into the old Queen's Wharf regularly with coal for P. Burns and Co. Mr. ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Mar 1934     Three Ships Schooner Days CXXXI (131) Further the Adventures of Capt. Alexander Ure, Master Mariner, of Toronto, Now in His 88th Year THE Augusta and the Antelope towed out of Fairhaven on the same towline. It was on ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 21 Jul 1934     This story needs to be read with a great deal of caution, as not all the facts offered up are verifiable. There are a number of links to accounts of the loss of the MAGGIE HUNTER which are attached to this record, but to summarize. She was not the HELEN …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Nov 1934     Last Days of the Scotch Schooner Days CLXll (162) Including a Very Curious Dream and a Very Short Fight IT really isn't as bad as it sounds. There is still a wee deoch-an-doris in the jarrr, but we'll leave it ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Mar 1934     Iron Ore out of Whitby Schooner Days CXXX (130) Being a Continuation of the Life and Adventures of Capt. Alexander Ure, Master Mariner, of Toronto, Now in His Eight-eight Year MANY a hard ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 May 1934     "Where Are the Nine?" Schooner Days CXXXVIII (138) _______ IT is not for the purpose of reviving ancient animosities nor of performing the chores of those ministers of hell, the armament vendors, that we dwell with interest and ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 20 Jan 1934     Accompanying KATE Schooner Days CXXII (122) By C. H. J. Snider KATE CHISHOLM was as sweet a girl as ever crossed the Sixteen Mile Creek; but the Kate of Oakville, called after her was as cross and cantankerous as ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Feb 1934     The Grand Haven Rig Schooner Days CXXVII (127) THERE was one rig we evolved on the lakes, which like the esteemed mule, had neither ancestry to boast of nor posterity to encourage. This was generally called the Grand Haven rig, although whether it ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 26 May 1934     "Up the Lake Like a Diving-Bell" Schooner Days CXL (140) Something more of the life adventures of the schooner Keewatin, ex-Paragon. REDNERSVILLE, on the south side of the reach of the Bay of Quinte passing Belleville, ...