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1  her other owners, the vessel was christened the Magnet.3

2  For the Magnet this moment marked an auspicious beginning to a

3  in Kingston just a few months before, the Magnet was the first of a new generation of vessels in

4  the railway nationalized. In the interim, the Magnet's career involved it in many of the organizational

5  Initially there was some talk of having the Magnet prefabricated in Great Britain and then shipped

6  successfully, Sutherland struggled to get the Magnet finished. "Would to God I was [at] once clear of

7  When the Magnet was measured by the customs house authorities

8  line of iron-hulled vessels, sisters to the Magnet, and one group of businessmen went so far as to

9  The Magnet's final escape from the Niagara River released a

10  Niagara Harbour and Dock Company folded and the Magnet found it more difficult to break into the

11  brave talk of a line of vessels to follow, the Magnet entered the Lake Ontario and upper St. Lawrence

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

13  balance of power, the announcement that the Magnet would pioneer a through service between Hamilton

14  those of navigation. Late in the season the Magnet struck a rock at the entrance to the Beauharnois

15  the "Admiral of Lake Ontario" conceded the Magnet a place in the Lake Ontario Royal Mail Line.63

16  of the mail service than have Sutherland and the Magnet in constant competition. And so in the winter of

17  The search for a secure income for the Magnet would not be concluded quite so easily. By the

18  ensued before Bethune surrendered places for the Magnet and Heron and Dick in the Lake Ontario Mail

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

20  Sutherland and Edward Jackson, representing the Magnet's owners. The steamboat owners signed articles of

21  Sutherland had been seeking, and he kept the Magnet within the cartel for the remaining years of his

22  One may wonder how the Magnet thrived, having survived the most turbulent

23  later with Bethune's vessel, the Maple Leaf. The Magnet had to be towed into Presqu'ile Harbour, and her

24  was undertaken in the same period. Although the Magnet's hull may have represented the latest advances in

25  converted or been built to that pattern.75 The Magnet's renovations were undertaken in preparation for

26  To operate a passenger steamboat like the Magnet in this period required a crew of about

27  vessel. In the single surviving fragment of the Magnet's accounts, the gross receipts in an off-peak

28  that Sutherland relinquished the command of the Magnet to work for the Great Western Railway. In a

29  unique for the period, the officers of the Magnet banded together and gave their captain a tea

30  probably the single largest shareholder in the Magnet. Together with Andrew Heron he chartered another

31  Moreover, the Magnet's backers formed the single largest bloc of the

32  Toronto on business, probably connected with the Magnet, for he was seen in conversation with Captain

33  by the time of his death. Unlike some of the Magnet's later captains, who were promoted from the ranks

34  lamented early in the promotion of the Magnet, "I have...been more accustomed to pull ropes

35  In all the years she was under his command, the Magnet was scheduled to lie in her home port over

36  largely of real estate and his shares of the Magnet.92 Before long Margaret and the vessel's other

37  and the vessel's other owners offered the Magnet for sale.

38  In the sixty-eight years remaining to the Magnet, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence shipping trade

39  a sharp economic downturn almost in sight, the Magnet's new proprietor, Alexander Milloy,93 sensed

40  To raise the capital to buy and renovate the Magnet, Milloy had been forced to register three

41  (as it would come to be known) lay in the Magnet's old Hamilton-Montreal route, where, despite

42  The Saguenay route was a popular one, but the Magnet never earned enough to allow her new owner to

43  During the rest of the navigation season the Magnet ran between Montreal and Hamilton.95

44  In the fleet of fifteen Canadian gunboats the Magnet was both the second largest and the oldest. In

45  of the Niagara frontier by armed Fenians, the Magnet was requisitioned by the Canadian government.

46  owners merged with the Richelieu Company, the Magnet became a part of the new Richelieu and Ontario

47  Eight years later the Magnet, together with another company vessel, the

48  a flood of immigration by this route. The Magnet worked for ten seasons on the Owen Sound-Lake

49  The following year the Magnet was severely crippled in the Coteau Rapids and

50  relatively free of railway competition when the Magnet arrived. Ten years later, with several shipping

51  trades underwent a severe crisis. While the Magnet shifted to the lower St. Lawrence, others were

52  James Sutherland and the Magnet represent nearly the last exponents of one of

53  was still being used sixty years later when the Magnet was finally retired from the passenger trade. It

54  as a transshipment point. To a large degree the Magnet was responsible for demonstrating the general

55  figures or that early in 1847, while the Magnet was taking shape in the Niagara dockyard, City

56  Nor should it be surprising that the Magnet's backers included some of Hamilton's most

57  same time Sutherland's trials in financing the Magnet illustrate the problems emerging in the

58  boomed along with transportation. Moreover, the Magnet's iron hull represented an expensive technological

59  of technology; in the mid-nineteenth century the Magnet's backers were extremely fortunate in the effect

60  The Magnet was an extraordinary legacy. Although her

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This article originally appeared in Ontario History.