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- Kingston, ON
- 1 years. Together with the Passport, launched in Kingston just a few months before, the Magnet was the
- 2 crack new steamers on the prestigious Toronto-Kingston trade. But the reputation he had earned on the
- 3 of the lake had to change vessels twice, at Kingston and Toronto. But few of Hamilton's boosters had
- 4 and a place in the lake mail line between Kingston and Toronto were Heron and Dick, Bethune's
- 5 a freight line run by an ex-captain and his Kingston agent, who were using vessels once described as
- 6 confined their operations to the waters below Kingston. The unity of this group was reinforced by a
- 7 Bethune. When troops were shipped directly from Kingston to the Niagara frontier on the Magnet, Bethune,
- 8 the attempt of Sutherland's friends in the Kingston Commissariat office to pass him some patronage
- 9 was his control of the mail contract between Kingston and Toronto.61 Though remunerative in normal
- 10 This was followed by a joint tender for the new Kingston-Toronto mail contract. Should Bethune be
- 11 the major steamboat proprietors to meet them in Kingston late that April.71 Among those attending were
- 12 just as Gildersleeve is representative of Kingston's economic hegemony over the Bay of Quinte in the
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This article originally appeared in Ontario History.
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