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      Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. Royal Naval Dockyard at Kingston, Upper Canada As it appeared during the latter days of the Provincial Marine and prior to the beginning of the 1812 War. During the war it was greatly enlarged

      The HMS St. Lawrence was a monster at the dock, even as seen here during winter in her partially de-rigged state.

      A quiet evening late in the war with moonlight illuminating thin ice and partially de-rigged ships. Stern cabin lights show sailors are still awake after the early nightfall. It would be late February before those in Kingston learned that copies of a peace treaty had been signed in Ghent, Belgium …

      Pencil on paper

      ink, pencil on paper

      Pencil and pen and ink on paper

      Monochrome grey wash & gouache

      Lithograph with light greenish grey tint-stone on wove paper

      Pencil on bristol board, with ruled border of pencil

      Aquatint, etching and water colour on wove paper

      Lithograph on wove paper

      Watercolour, pen and ink on paper

      Pencil on grey paper

      ink engraving on paper, with watercolour

      Watercolour over pencil with border of pink wash on heavy wove paper

      Watercolour, touches of opaque white, over pencil on wove paper.

      Lithograph printed with light yellowish brown tint, col. with watercolour and gouache, on wove paper. Laid down on scrapbook page

      Lithograph printed with light yellowish brown tint on wove paper. Laid down on scrapbook page.

      Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. H.M.S. CHEROKEE, 1842 This wood-built, paddle-driven, six-gun steam sloop-of-war (schooner rigged) was built at Kingston Dockyard and was the first regular naval vessel to use steam power on the Great Lakes.