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Bethune, Donald

1  as James Sutherland. But since Elmsley, Bethune's partner in the Niagara, still nursed a grudge

2  he spent the next three seasons working for Bethune, returning to the decks of the Niagara (since

3  Niagara to Donald Bethune and John Elmsley.16 Bethune, the rising star in the Lake Ontario steamboat

4  was retrenching and had sold the Niagara to Donald Bethune and John Elmsley.16 Bethune, the rising star in

5  Nor was his position any more secure with Bethune, who had also just passed through a financial

6  to gather the materials for the steamer, Bethune began to campaign to have the contract either

7  the province, and a silent business partner of Donald Bethune. Among his other commitments Cayley was

8  His initial protests having fallen on deaf ears, Bethune launched a petition in the provincial

9  secret, and in short giving money to anyone but Bethune and his associates, received a favourable report

10  "I have been thwarted in every imaginable way, [Bethune, Dick and Heron's] object being to delay my

11  most of the Lake Ontario passenger routes was Donald Bethune. Apart from having a corner on British patronage

12  agent, who were using vessels once described as Bethune's "dead stock".55 Subcontracting for some of

13  "dead stock".55 Subcontracting for some of Bethune's patronage and a place in the lake mail line

14  Kingston and Toronto were Heron and Dick, Bethune's co-petitioners in that summer's legislative

15  of this group was reinforced by a mistrust of Bethune, rooted in his inept attempts to extend his

16  busy season precipitated another dispute with Bethune. When troops were shipped directly from Kingston

17  Kingston to the Niagara frontier on the Magnet, Bethune, who had a contract for this service, was

18  reasons he was forced to open negotiations with Bethune for a place in the lake mail line.60

19  That Bethune ever seriously considered such overtures reveals

20  were beginning to plague his fleet.62 Evidently Bethune concluded it might prove cheaper to subcontract

21  Bethune, nevertheless, still held the upper hand and

22  end of the 1848 season the sheriff had seized Bethune's vessels and those of his dependents in the

23  trade.65 Those who were thankfully counting Bethune out of the shipping trades were given a rude

24  for various subcontracts entangled in Bethune's complex bankruptcy proceedings, Sutherland and

25  that business would be much more peaceful if Bethune could be eliminated. It was a feeling they

26  Together they began a two-part effort to drive Bethune out of the water. The first step was a competing

27  A vicious round of price cutting ensued before Bethune surrendered places for the Magnet and Heron and

28  the new Kingston-Toronto mail contract. Should Bethune be excluded from this service there would be

29  suing for the value of the supplies advanced to Bethune over the 1849 season, the other shipping

30  proprietors may be forgiven for believing Bethune to have been ruined.67 Later, Sutherland would

31  the value of their tender even higher.68 But Bethune was successful in persuading eighty-one other

32  his opposition and began negotiations with Bethune. Despite his general dislike for Bethune and his

33  with Bethune. Despite his general dislike for Bethune and his tactics, Sutherland used his superior

34  position to assure himself that money paid Bethune for the Magnet's services would be passed on to

35  replace the power of the contractor, upon which Bethune's reputation had been built, with that of an

36  through line in the 1850 season, they forced Bethune and the major steamboat proprietors to meet them

37  was a midnight collision three years later with Bethune's vessel, the Maple Leaf. The Magnet had to be

38  he might be, but the constant harassment from Bethune in the early stages of the project demanded both

39  on the Toronto-Niagara run was bankrupted by Bethune. He ended his career as Toronto Harbour

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This article originally appeared in Ontario History.