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 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 23 Jun 1910     Capt. James F. Allen ____ Interesting Sketch of the Life of the Popular Steamboat Man - Commanded all the Folger Boats. ____ The Kingston Whig of June 23 contained the following concerning the late Capt. James F. Allen. Captain Allen was born ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Apr 1915     The Sailing Schooner ____ Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past On the Great Lakes ____ The indications are that is only a matter of time, and a short time at that, when the sailing vessel will have disappeared completely from the Great Lakes. During the ...

      The day of the old wind jammers on the lake is past. There are now 28 schooners in commission on Lake Ontario, where formerly there were several hundred, and they are nearly all Canadian owned, though nearly all once had an American register. As the old schooners and sail crafts …

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 8 Aug 1929     Hinckley, Ashore at Stony Point, Is a Total Wreck According to advices from Henderson Harbor the steam barge Hinckley, which was beached by its owner, Capt. A. R. Hinckley, about ten days ago in Gravely Bay, between Henderson Harbor and Stony Point, is a total wreck, having been ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 20 Nov 1919     Ontario's Record For Lost Vessels _______ Many Ships Have Mysteriously Disappeared Beneath the Waters of This Lake _______ (Toronto Telegram) Did the "Homer Warren," wallowing the welter of sulky slumbering seas as she pushed her way homeward ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 12 May 1921     Boat Building at Chaumont ____ Captain Frank Phelps Has the Only Shipyard in This Section ____ About fifty years ago, according to a Chaumont correspondent, this section of Jefferson county could boast of three shipyards, one at Sackets Harbor, ...

 Cape Vincent Eagle (Cape Vincent, NY), 6 Mar 1941     Post Office Closed at Point Peninsula ____ After more than 102 years the hamlet of Point Peninsula, once a thriving shipbuilding center during the early schooner days of the Great Lakes and later an oil-field boom town, lost its post office on the first day of last ...

      The large fishing tug, built at the Phelps shipyard, Chaumont, for Claude W. Cole, of this village, was launched last Thursday afternoon. The craft, considered to be one of the sturdiest built at Chaumont in years, will soon be ready to place in commission.

      p.3 an article by Uncle Philander Jr.: "....What I am going to complain about is the fact that the siren failed to function last Saturday afternoon when the St. Louis, the hulk of the old pulp wood boat that has laid in the water in the eastern portion of the …

 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 ...

 Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), July 26, 1941     While the description of the attempt to send the schooner MICHIGAN over Niagara Falls is taken from contemporary accounts, Snider incorrectly connects the MICHIGAN with Barclay's DETROIT. The latter was also sent down the river to the Falls, but in September 1841.

 Toronto Telegram, 10 Jan 1953     The Unheeded Bride Schooner Days MLXXXVII (1087) by C. H. J. Snider "Morning Light" - 1 DR. AND MRS. DOUPE, of ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, July 29, 1950     The Big Fisherman's Schooner Days CMLXII (962) by C. H. J. Snider Forecastles as Found Many a happy hour have ...

 Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), Dec. 29, 1945     Messages From Christmas Tree Ship Came After Years Schooner Days No. DCCXXIV (724) by C. H. J. Snider _______ Although the Coast Guard's searching diligently could not find any trace of the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), July 4, 1931     Great Gale of 1880 Schooner Days No. XXIII For forty years almost, Capt. David Reynolds was master of the Royal Canadian Yacht club launches Esmeralda, Hiawatha and Kwasind. His trips across the Bay, on their half-hour schedule, would have taken him twice around the ...

 C. H. J. Snider, Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 28 Mar 1931     Schooner Days IX (9) The Boy Mate By C.H.J. Snider The late Magistrate J.J. O'Connor, of Port Arthur, continuing his lake-going experiences, tells of something that made him very, very angry in the good ship Wood Duck .

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 15 Apr 1950     Passing Thro' The Devil's Nose Schooner Days No. CMXLVII (947) by C. H. J. Snider Having finished our exploring of the Devil's Nose on the Friday the 13th mentioned, we looked for ...

 Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 1 May 1937     Dinosaur For Breakfast an 1812-er in the Camera Schooner Days no. CCXC _______ Some of the pictures in the Parsons' store at Oswego are photographs - Oswego harbor in storm and calm, freshet and frost, bristling with masts or ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Aug 1936     Finding a Ship for a Padlocked Anchor Schooner Days CCLIV (254) _______ As said last week, every anchor has its story, and we promised to go on with those shackled to the big 700-pound anchor bedded in the Lake where the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 1 Dec 1945     Big Cheese Across The Trail Schooner Days No. 720 by C. H. J. Snider _______ Search for Another of the Vanished Ports of Lake Ontario Encounters Obstacle That Took 24 ...