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1  The English Fleet on the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, 1758-60

2  The French Fleet on the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, 1758-60

3  The French Fleet on the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, 1758-60

4  at Cataraqui in constructing ships on Lake Ontario and in commercial transactions with the Indians.

5  The first sailing vessel built upon Ontario was a small schooner of about ten tons burden,

6  Hudson and a fourth by the St. Lawrence." (Like Ontario Lake Erie has not always borne its present name;

7  account of the first vessels which traversed Lake Ontario a hundred and thirty years ago may be found in

8  to transport his troops and artillery by way of Lake Ontario." (V. 1, p. 44.)

9  "The first English schooner on Lake Ontario was launched this summer. She had 40 feet keel,

10  first time were observed "Saint Elmo's Lights on Lake Ontario." The historian, continuing, writes:--

11  which did great service for the French on Lake Ontario, but finally fell into the hands of the English.

12  record of sailing vessels being afloat on Lake Ontario.

13  has been stated that the first vessel built on Lake Ontario was in 1749, but this, we have reason to

14  to be correct that a sailing ship was built on Lake Ontario in 1779 -- exactly seventy years had elapsed

15  be from eighty to one hundred tons burthen on Lake Ontario and fifteen tons burthen on Lakes Erie and

16  in 1793 the entire command of the naval force on Lake Ontario. His son, Joseph Bouchette, who was born in

17  set out in boats for Toronto, round the head of Lake Ontario by Burlington Bay, and in the evening his

18  of Customs. In this vessel they proceeded up Lake Ontario to Navy Hall, on the Niagara River, the

19  his Majesty's service in the various ports on Lake Ontario. I have fixed upon a site for a place for a town

20  and proceeded in batteaux round the head of the Lake Ontario, by Burlington Bay." The second detachment of

21  intention to build ten smaller gun-boats on Lake Ontario and ten on Lake Erie. The ship carpenters, who

22  "Captain Bouchette commands the naval force of Lake Ontario, and is at the head of all the marine

23  regard to the pay of the Royal Marine force on Lake Ontario, a captain has ten shillings a day, a lieutenant

24  were any American built ships afloat either upon Lake Ontario or Erie.

25  Company, the first vessel built for trade upon Lake Ontario, (Canniff, p. 149). About the same time, the

26  Batteau. She was found adrift the 14th inst., on the Lake is now well secured and the owner may know where

27  most melancholy disasters that ever occurred on Lake Ontario took place on the morning of April 30th when the

28  In a great storm which occurred on Lake Ontario on April 18th, in this year, the schooner

29  after whom one of the best known steamers on Ontario was called. The second was Captain Sutherland,

30  ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. LAKE ONTARIO AND RIVER ST. LAWRENCE.

31  LAKE ONTARIO. BETWEEN KINGSTON AND TORONTO.

32  LAKE ONTARIO.

33  early on the following day, where they met the Lake Ontario steamers Kingston, Capt. Hamilton; Passport,

34  vessels of her size that ever swam upon the Ontario, and if we are permitted to judge from her

35  violent storm prevailed at the eastern end of Lake Ontario on the night of November 2nd. Many vessels were

36  Navigation on Lake Ontario opened early this season (1863) on March 26th,

37  the steamers which ply to and from this port on Lake Ontario the coming season will be few indeed. The

38  steamer in the traffic of the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario."

39  expected her to prove the fastest boat on Lake Ontario.

40  for the American Government service on Lake Ontario. They were built at Williamsburgh and at

41  The gunboat Heron, intended for service on Lake Ontario, arrived here (Toronto) yesterday. She is a trim

42  "In the upper part of the province on Lake Ontario, the best harbour is that of Toronto or York. A

43  to be stowed beneath her hatches. She ran upon Lake Ontario for many years, and made for her owner a small

44  is a very great favourite with travellers upon Lake Ontario and also with excursionists. She has side

45  and most commodious steamboats plying on Lake Ontario."

46  we believe, the first steamer on the waters of Lake Ontario, the Princess Charlotte, which plied, as

47  Captain James Saulter, a man well-known on Lake Ontario, and until his death owner of the Island steamer

48  On Lake Ontario there were the two routes, via Sarnia and

49  American steamers which have been running on Lake Ontario during the past season are those of the Northern

50  Jukes had passed his early days on the shores of Lake Ontario, and was famous for his love of the water and

51  The schooner John Bentley, the largest vessel on Lake Ontario, will make a grand excursion to Niagara, under

52  There were few alterations either on Lake Ontario or the upper lakes in the season of 1879. Most

53  have been chartered to meet the Chicora on the Lake, leaving the docks as foot of Yonge. Church and

54  upon excursions to and from the various ports on Lake Ontario.

55  public that the dangers to vessels navigating Lake Ontario will in a great measure be avoided by the

56  journey by water from Hamilton at the head of Lake Ontario to the River Saguenay, it has been fitly

57  statements of the various vessels running on Lake Ontario have been compiled from the most reliable

58  endeavored to escape to the open waters of Lake Ontario, but a company of volunteers, about fifty in

59  At this time the following gunboats were upon Lake Ontario--the Earl of Moira, 20 guns; the Duke of

60  a flotilla of American boats in a creek on the Lake, which were proceeding from Oswego to Sackett's

61  the store of Nathaniel Merril, at Sodus Bay, on Lake Ontario, tor the purpose of transporting the same to the

62  a bill for incorporating a steamboat company for Lake Ontario. Yeas 49, nays 75."

63  Finkle's PointThe first steamboat on Lake Ontario, the Frontenac, was built upon the shores of the

64  forming a company to build a steamboat to ply on Lake Ontario and the navigable waters of the St. Lawrence. A

65  she affords of facilitating the navigation of Lake Ontario, by furnishing an expeditious and certain mode

66  order which equalized the dues at all places on Lake Ontario. Despite the fact that sailing vessels at this

67  Lockyer. Charwell, 50; captain, Montresor, for Lake Ontario. Champlain, 32; Captain Duell, for Lake

68  Frontenac has completed her second trip across Lake Ontario and will in future leave the different ports on

69  carriage by land." A terrible storm swept over Lake Ontario in the middle of this month. The Gazette thus

70  adds, " now navigate the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario in this province besides the Canada and a boat

71  the existence of the first steamboat built on Lake Ontario. Sic transit gloria mundi.

72  time continually running between the Ottawa and Ontario, and the traffic of heavy boats also appeared

73  A storm of great violence swept Lake Ontario in the early days of August, the schooner Union,

74  mode of expressing herself when she refers to Lake Ontario. Instead of speaking of it as it has just been

75  bottom of 'the Ontario.' "Again she writes: --" On the 9th September

76  Great Britain are not surpassed by any boat on Lake Ontario, the gentlemen's and ladies' cabins being fitted

77  LAKE ONTARIO. Toronto, Niagara, Queenston and Lewiston. THE

78  LAKE ONTARIO--1840. New Line of Low-Pressure Steamers

79  Wm. Johnson. Commodore, etc.. Lake Ontario. Whereas, as public notice has appeared in a

80  Frontenac, the second of the name, appeared on Lake Ontario, her route being from Toronto to Kingston. She

81  speed; she is now not inferior to any boat on Lake Ontario, in point of safety, comfort and convenience,

82  LAKE ONTARIO AND RIVER ST. LAWRENCE. Connected with the Line

83  pilot fees among the men. After sailing about Lake Ontario for some years the Cherokee was taken to

84  The Gore disappeared this season from Lake Ontario. Under the command of Captain James Dick she was

85  advertised her at first as "the finest vessel on Lake Ontario."

86  New Era and Comet, that was to be established on Lake Ontario and the River St. Lawrence in the season then

87  in Kingston of the various steamboat owners on Lake Ontario under this heading:--

88  While ascending Lake Ontario on April 22nd the propeller St. Lawrence was

89  early part of 1851 in the vessels plying upon Ontario or the St. Lawrence. The steamer Comet met with

90  steamers passing direct from the head of Lake Ontario to Montreal, and vice versa, over those Lines

91  public that the dangers to vessels navigating Lake Ontario will in a great measure be avoided by the

92  1857 or 1858 that the inroads of the waters of the Lake during a great storm caused what is now known as

93  OtterNorth-West Company75 OntarioSchr. Lady Dorchester8788 Schr. Gov.

94  the tugs, of course, excepted. but ply on Lakes Ontario or Huron as they can secure freight or

Lake Ontario

1  time were also built the two sister steamers, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. They were all of the same or

2  near Green Bay, Lake Michigan, in 1882, and the Lake Ontario was burned in 1890 at Clayton.

3  MichiganPort Dalhousie1872375 Lake OntarioPort Dalhousie1872375Wrecked 1882. Lake EriePort

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