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1836:
"Steamboats on Lake Erie,"
Bethel Magazine
, January 1836.
(including Table Showing the tonnage of Steam Boats on Lake Erie, their age, number of Berths, number of Hands employed, &c.) 1838: "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting A Report of the Fifth Auditor, in relation to the execution of the act of 7th July last, for Building Light-houses, Light-boats, &c.," United States, Serial Set no. 345 , 25th Congress, 3d Session, Executive Doc. No. 24 (13 December 1838). Extract from the 1838 report on Lighthouse expenditures. 1838: "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of the 29th of June last, information in relation to Steam-Engines, &c," United States, Serial Set no. 345 , 25th Congress, 3d Session, Executive Doc. No. 21 (13 December 1838). A US government census of Steam engine in vessels, factories, railroads. 1857: Hodder, Edward M., M. D., The Harbours And Ports Of Lake Ontario : in a Series of Charts, Accompanied By A Description Of Each; Together With The Lighthouses, Harbour Lights, Depth Of Water, Courses And Distances, &c. &c. Compiled From Authentic Sources, The Charts Of Capt. Owen And Lieut. Herbert, From Recent Surveys. As Well As From Personal Observations , Toronto: Maclear & Co., 16 King Street East. 1857. 1859: New York. Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor, Report on Navigation Companies , New York State Assembly Document no. 183, 1859. Official returns from 16 New York state-based shipping companies. Includes financial statements and lists of vessels owned. 1866: Rules Relative to the Construction of Lake Sail and Steam Vessels : Adopted by the Board of Lake Underwriters, 1866 , Buffalo: Matthews & Warren, 1866. 1868: Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries, "Report of Chairman of Board of Steamboat Inspection For the Year Ended 31st Debember 1868," Annual Report ... for the Year 1868 , Sessional Papers,(1869) No. 12. 1869: Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries, "Report of the Chairman of The Board of Steamboat Inspection For the Year Ended 31st Debember 1869," Annual Report ... for the Year 1869 , Sessional Papers, (1870) No. 11. 1869: Thompson, Thos. S., Thompson's Coast Pilot : for the Upper Lakes, on both shores from Chicago to Buffalo, Green Bay, Georgian Bay, and Lake Superior; Including the Rivers Detroit, St. Clair and Ste. Marie, with the Courses and Distances on Lake Ontario, and other information relative thereto. , (Detroit: Thos. S. Thompson, 5th ed., 1869). A well-travelled copy of one of the popular Pilot Books for the Great Lakes. 1870: Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries, "Report of Chairman of Board of Steamboat Inspection For the Year Ended 31st Debember 1870," Third Annual Report ... for the Year Ending 30th June 1870 , Sessional Papers,(1871) No. 5. 1871: Canada. Department of Marine and Fisheries, "Report of Chairman of Board of Steamboat Inspection," Annual Report ... for the Year Ending 30th June, 1871 , Sessional Papers,(1872) No. 5. 1873: Scadding, Henry, Toronto of Old : Collections and Recollections Illustrative of the Early Settlement and Social Life of the Capital of Ontario , Toronto: Adam, Stevenson & Co., 1873. Four chapters of "The Harbour: its Marine" from 1793-1863 from the first major history of Toronto. 1879: Dart, Joseph, "The Grain Elevators of Buffalo," Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society , January, 1879, pp. 391-404. An early history of the Buffalo grain elevators written by one of the early proponents and presented to the society in 1865. 1879: Norton, Charles D., "The Old Black Rock Ferry," Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society , January, 1879, pp. 91-112. A history of the Black Rock/Buffalo to Fort Erie ferry originally presented in 1863 and with a special emphasis on the history of the ferry through the years of the War of 1812. 1884: Andreas, A. T., History of Chicago : from the Earliest Period to the Present Time in three volumes , (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1884). Marine Extracts from the nineteenth-century three volume History of Chicago 1886: "The Great Lakes Marine," Detroit Tribune , 10 June 1886. A remarkable newspaper survey of the state of Great Lakes shipping in 1886 transcribed by Dave Swayze. 1890: Farmer, Silas, History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan : A Chronological Cyclopedia of the Past and Present , (Detroit: Silas Farmer & Co., 1890) 3rd edition.. Extracts of the marine history of Detroit 1895: Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels , New York: Smith & Stanton, 1895. Sketches and historical facts about some of the most famous nineteenth century steamboats in the United States derived from a variety of sources. 1896: Robertson, John Ross, Landmarks of Toronto : A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York From 1792 until 1833, and of Toronto From 1834 to 1895 [volume 2] , Toronto: J. Ross Roberston, 1896. Chapters 237 to 260 of a 6 volume local history featuring the shipping history of much of Lake Ontario. 1897: Copland, John A., Prominent Men of the Great Lakes : Transcriptions from the Globe (Toronto) , 2 October 1897 - 2 July 1898 . A collection of biographies of Canadian figures in Great Lakes maritime circles, largely involved with Lake Ontario shipping. 1898: Copland, John, Passenger Steamers , Globe (Toronto), August 16, 1898.. Illustrated article by John Copeland on the passenger steamboat business to and within Toronto harbour in the late nineteenth century. 1899: Mansfield, J. B. , ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I , Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899. The first volume of the most important history of Great Lakes shipping published in the nineteenth century. 1899: Mansfield, J. B. , ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume II , Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899. The second volume of the most important history of Great Lakes shipping published in the nineteenth century. 1902: Walker, Augustus, "Early Days On The Lakes, With An Account Of The Cholera Visitation Of 1832," Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society , vol. V (January, 1902): pp. 287-18. Extracts from the notes of Captain Augustus Walker, who died in 1865. 1902: Palmer, Mary A. Witherell, "The Wreck Of The Walk-in-the-water, Pioneer Steamboat On The Western Lakes," Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society , vol. V (January, 1902): pp. 319-23. An eyewitness account of the wreck of the Walk-In-The-Water from one of the survivors. 1913: Cumberland, Barlow, A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River , (Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited, 1913). Written by one of the founders of the Niagara Navigation Company, this 200 page history covers the early history of steam navigation between Toronto and the Niagara River. It recounts in detail the careers of the Chicora (ex-Civil War Blockade runner Let Her B), the Cibola, Ongiara, Chippewa, Corona and Cayuga. 1913: Mooney, W. T., Some Personal Experiences of Masters of the Lake Fleet of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company in the Storm of November 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1913 1957: Gilmore, James, "The St. Lawrence River Canals Vessel," Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Transactions , 1957, pp. 111-61. 1968: Toronto Marine Historical Society, Scanner , 1968-. 1983: Lewis, Walter, Until Further Notice : The Royal Mail Line and the Passenger Steamboat Trade on Lake Ontario and the Upper St. Lawrence River, 1838-1875 , Kingston, ON : Queen's University, January 1983. 2001: Brookes, Ivan S., Hamilton Harbour, 1826-1901 , Halton Hills : Maritime History of the Great Lakes, 2001. From the Making of America document collections at the University of Michigan:
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