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 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 28 Sep 1935     "Giants in Those Days" in the Timber Trade Schooner Days CCVII (207) ___ ONE of the pleasantest pieces of mail for the compiler of these chronicles came recently, addressed to him on a Cunard Line baggage ...

      Previous Registration: British (1849) 108x14x9 Owned by J. Peake, Charlottetown 1849; to S. Cunard, Halifax 1853. Northumberland Strait ferry. Arrived from United Kingdom under sail 09/08/49. Wrecked 29/09/53 Rustico N. S. while chartered for "fisheries patrol". ; Final Location: Rustico, Nova Scotia, Canada, Wrecked

      Official No.: 61301; First Rebuild: Official Number: 61301 Propulsion: Screw Dimensions: 108 x 22 -- 218 tons Rebuilt: in 1879 108x22x8 Owned by J. Lowe, Victoria 1868; W. Moore, Victoria 1877; Saunders & Warren, Victoria 1883. Built by Wigram, Blackwall England 1856. Arrived at Esquimalt as R. N. gunboat 12/07/60. …

      First Rebuild: Official Number: 83459 Propulsion: Screw Dimensions: 125 x 22 -- 289 tons 125x22x12 Owned by Hudson's Bay Co., to Canadian Pacific Navigation Co. 1883. Built by Green Wigram & Green, Blackwall (London) England 1852. First engine 26x18 by Maudslay Sons & Field, London. Delivery voyage to B. C. …

      185x28x15 Owned by Hudson's Bay Co. Used in pioneering West Coast voyages. Arrived Esquimalt from London 31/01/59. Not overly successful: offered for sale June 1862 at San Francisco; no takers, returned to Victoria. Wrecked in fog June 1866 Point Reyes, California while on new subsidized mail service to San Francisco. …

      Stereoview of the Richelieu Company steamboat QUEBEC, lying at the wharf at Quebec City.

      Early stereoview of Quebec from Levis with several classes of sailing vessels moored in the Saint Lawrence River. In the foreground is the steamboat SAGUENAY.

      Dredge DELVER pumping out HMCS MAGOG (K673) after her stern was torpedoed in the St. Lawrence on 14 October 1944. MAGOG was paid off on 20 Dec. 1944.

      Our Upper Canada readers will feel interest in the result of the trial to navigate the ocean with Lake schooners. Last fall, Messrs. C.E. Levey & Co., of Quebec, the owners, with their usual enterprising spirit, determined upon making the experiment, and brought down to this port the "Lilla," a …

      Reason: sunk

      Reason: damaged cargo Lives: nil Cargo: $700 Freight: wheat

      Reason: sunk

      Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Repaired

      p.3 Rates of Towage for New Steamer Raftsman Notice - The Steamboat Raftsman, built in Upper Canada for the purposes of TOWING RAFTS into the Port of Quebec, has now commenced running, and a regular Tariff having been fixed for Towage - Lumber Merchants and their foreman ...

      First Rebuild: Official Number: 72668 Propulsion: Sidewheel Dimensions: 101 x 20 -- 159 tons Rebuilt: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1877 101x20x11. Owned by Hudson's Bay Co., to B. C. Towing Co 1874; E. C. Baker, Victoria 1886. Built by Green, Wigram & Green, London, England and launched 02/05/35. Engine …

 Rochester Union & Advertiser (Rochester, NY), 17 Jun 1874     A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER SALE OF THE CANADIAN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAMERS ATHENIAN AND ABYSSINIAN NO STEAMERS TO RUN ON THE COAST THIS SEASON THE EFFECT OF THE STOPPAGE Negotiations which have been on foot for some time for the sale of the Canadian Steam ...

 Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA), 24 Jun 1850, p. 3     Extraordinary Voyage. The propeller Ontario, Averel, arrived at this port on Sunday, from Rochester, via the St. Lawrence, being the first arrival of a merchant vessel from a port on Lake Ontario. She was built at Rochester, on the Genesee River in 1846, was strengthened for sea ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 8 May 1850, p. 1, column 5     PROPELLER ONTARIO.-- We are informed that the Propeller Ontario, built at this port about two years since, is now fitting up as a sea steamer at Buffalo, and is intended to run between Ogdensburgh and Quebec, with occasional trips to Halifax to meet the Cunard steamers from ...

 Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH), 3 Jul 1850, p. 1, column 7     Quick Trip The Propeller Ontario made the passage from Montreal to Quebec [sic: probably meant New York] in twelve days.--She took on board at Erie, some 300 tons of coal, and had 100 tons remaining on her arrival at New york. We understand her owner intends to take the Propeller …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Apr 1933     Dalhousie to Dublin Schooner Days LXXXV (85) Resuming the history of the Muir Brothers, whose famous drydock at Port Dalhousie, built in 1850, is still a going concern, we come to their "barque" Niagara, a lake pitcher which went once too often to the well of the ...