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      Photograph of MIDLAND QUEEN unloading coal at Midland, ON

      Photograph of lumber carrier RESOLUTE docked at Midland. Note the sail on her mast, the stocked anchor hung from her starboard bow and the lifeboat suspended above deck on the kingpost.

     

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 22 Dec 1951     Wheel Comes Full Circle Schooner Days MXXXII (1032) by C. H. J. Snider THE JAMES NORRIS, longest Canadian steamer, launched at Midland this month, can cary 18,000 to 20,000 tons of ...

 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 ...

      Photograph of CITY OF OWEN SOUND (with arches added) moored at Fort William.

      Stereoview of the paddlewheeled steamboat MANITOBA at the dock with the Hudson Bay trading post, Fort William, in the background. MANITOBA is moored in the Kaministiquia River.

      Photograph of the Canadian Dredge & Dock Co. dredge PRIMROSE at work on the harbour in Port Arthur. Construction on the pier, with grain elevators in the background.

      The community's name was changed to Port Arthur in 1883. Illingworth moved to East Seventh St. in St. Paul in 1873

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Nov 1947     Last of an ALBATROSS Schooner Days DCCCXX (820) by C. H. J. Snider "At length did cross An Albatross Through the fog it came" ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Nov 1947   Last of an ALBATROSS Schooner Days DCCCXX (820) by C. H. J. Snider "At length did cross An Albatross Through the fog it came" ...

Maritime History of the Great Lakes

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 19 Dec 1936     Down Superior in December By C. H. J. Snider with Capt. Jas McCannel in the Assiniboia _______ WELCOME ISLAND flashed a friendly farewell, and the keeper's house, immediately below the light, had a lamp ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Dec 1938     Another Storage Cargo - Orders at the Head of the Lakes Schooner Days CCCLXXVI (376) _______ (This continues the story of how the steamer Robert D. Durham of Toronto got the winter storage load which now floats at the old ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Jul 1941     He Went Into Steam Schooner Days DIII (503) by C. H. J. Snider _______ WHAT?" writes a follower of Schooner Days in a tone that Means what and some more, "what became of Capt. Johnny ...

      Draft of letter to an unidentified light keeper regarding the late delivery of returns from the fourth quarter of 1840, and specifically that the accounts were missing. Return send with some Indians to Thunder Bay for the Express, but not delivered. Account sent via Biddle & Drew's man to Thunder …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 15 Jul 1933     Crowds and Sites Schooner Days XCVI (96) Relieve the man for'ard and look out for lights and squalls. It is the Old Man's watch below and the Doctor takes a trick at the wheel. IN the ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 May 1947     The Torchbearer Schooner Days DCCXCVI (796) by C. H. J. Snider BURNT children dread the fire, but not so Capt. W. D. Graham, of St. Catharines, who celebrated his 92nd birthday on ...

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Dec 1936     This is the first of the Schooner Days articles on which C. H. J. Snider's name appears in a byline.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 10 Dec 1938     Winter Storage, the "Gravy Load" Schooner Days CCCLXXIII (373) _______ How a Great Lakes Freighter Brings It From the Head of the Great Lakes to Toronto in December

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 23 Jun 1945     Outsailed Steamers - but Lake Caught Her Schooner Days DCXCVIII (698) by C. H. J. Snider _______ MINNEDOSA was meant to sail, and did sail, as fast as any steamboat could go. Her voyage to ...