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Table of Contents

Title Page
Preface
Introduction
1 A place called Hamilton.
2 Public Works and Private Enterprise
3 Port Hamilton
4 1837-1839
5 Ericsson Wheels
6 1844-1847
7 Good Times in Port
8 Boom Town Days
9 Depression Years
10 Better Times Ahead
11 1867-1870
12 Prosperity for the Shipbuilders
13 The Second Railway Building Era
14 1884-1888
15 The Electric Era
16 The Iron Age
Table of Illustrations
Index
Acadia
1   burgee was given to the breeze, bearing the name ACADIA. The dimensions of the ACADIA are: length
2   OSPREY, now owned by Aeneas MacKay and the ACADIA, owned by the Malcolmsons, were glistening with
3   the OSPREY and the ACADIA, the winter fleet in Hamilton consisted of the
4   the Merchants' Line - The fine composite steamer ACADIA, built last summer in this city for the
5   day, further waterfront news stated that the ACADIA was undergoing repairs on Shickluna's Floating
6   AMERICA, Capt. Moore, BRANTFORD, Capt. Vaughan, ACADIA, Capt. Malcolmson and the DOMINION, Capt.
7   were shown yesterday on board the fine propeller ACADIA, of the Merchants' Line. A new and most effective
8   August. At the time he was acting purser on the ACADIA, which was lying in that harbour and with two
9   the 20 April, the propellers ACADIA and INDIAN departed for Port Dalhousie, while the
10   notice published by A. D. MacKay stated that the ACADIA would leave on or about the 5 May for Pt. Dover,
11   season to enter that port. At the same time, the ACADIA was on her way to Chicago, to pick up a cargo of
12   the 7 June, the propeller ACADIA was advertised in the service of Beatty's Sarnia
13   at a cost of $33,000, as a running-mate for the ACADIA. The only difference is that the new vessel will
14   for the seasons consisted of the steamers ACADIA, BRUNO, OSPREY, ONTARIO and ARGYLE. The sailing
15   AFRICA (73), ALMA MUNRO (73), AMERICA, ARGYLE, ACADIA, BRISTOL, BRUNO, CANADA, COLUMBIA (73), CALIFORNIA
16   John Malcolmson's two fine propellers ARMENIA & ACADIA, which are moored at Beckett's old wharf as
17   Beckett's Wharf was a handy place to lay up the ACADIA and the ARMENIA, since the Malcolmson clan
18   when he was building the composite vessel ACADIA. Capt. John gave up sailing in 1872 and came
19   Line, and the Western Express Line with the ACADIA, AFRICA, ALMA MUNRO, ARMENIA, GEORGIAN, BRUNO,
20   available. One case in point, was that of the ACADIA, operated by Mrs. Elizabeth Malcolmson of
21   Zealand's and Browne's Wharves lay the steamers ACADIA, ZEALAND and FLORENCE and the schooners VICTOR, E.
22   propeller ACADIA was advertised for sale by public auction on the
23   down by the Hamilton & North Western Ry. The ACADIA was loading flour and apples and the LAKE
24   cleared for Cleveland while the propellers ACADIA and LAKE ONTARIO both left for Toronto. The
25   Western Express Line steamers ACADIA and ST. MAGNUS spent most of the season on the
26   MICHIGAN, LAKE ONTARIO, CELTIC, ST. MAGNUS and ACADIA. The following day, the propeller ARGYLE arrived
27   ACADIA in the Thousand Islands after she had been
28   unloading general cargo at Zealand's Wharf, the ACADIA was on her way down from Chicago and the
29   she would be placed on the Duluth service. The ACADIA would be ready to leave in about two weeks. The
30   with pig iron at McIlwraith's Wharf. The ACADIA was chartered to load 2,000 kegs of gunpowder at
31   was expected to be ready about the 1 June. The ACADIA was taking on a cargo of wheat at the N. & N. W.
32   under the supervision of Capt. W. Zealand. The ACADIA, Capt. Malcolmson and the ST. MAGNUS, Capt. Woods,
33   MURTON. At Robertson's Shipyard, the propellers ACADIA and ST. MAGNUS had been fitted out and the
34   on her way to Gananoque with pig iron. Both the ACADIA and the MYLES had returned from Montreal and laid
35   ST. LOUIS, owned by Alderman Williamson, the ACADIA, managed by Sam Malcolmson and A. M. Robertson's
36   in Hamilton were the MYLES, CANADA, ST. MAGNUS, ACADIA, LAKE MICHIGAN and CELTIC. The CELTIC was having
37   Co. fleet was laid up for the winter. The ACADIA was undergoing some repair work at Toronto, while
38   of 1891 opened on the 4 April when the propeller ACADIA, Capt. Malcolmson, arrived from Toronto. This was
39   the harbour for a month and the propeller ACADIA was unloading general cargo, after which she
40   propeller ACADIA, built in Hamilton in 1867 by Capt. John
41   propeller ACADIA was expected on the 19 July, having been
42   to Muir's dry dock, only just vacated by the ACADIA. The ST. MAGNUS, recently purchased by R. O.
43   activity along the waterfront. The propeller ACADIA and the fleet of the Hamilton Steamboat Co. were
44   Magee Bros. for W. Luxton and Jas. Dunlop. The ACADIA and the LAKE MICHIGAN were expected from
45   propeller ACADIA struck a rock on the 8 June, near Morrisburg and
46   arrived from Charlotte with coal. The propeller ACADIA came in from Montreal with cargo and passengers,
47   was about to resume her sailings. The propeller ACADIA had been taking her place on the
48   of Quinte. On the same day, the MacKay propeller ACADIA was tied up in the Cornwall Canal with engine
49   to be dry-docked and rebuilt. The propeller ACADIA arrived with 6,843 coils of wire for the Ontario
50   to have her bottom scraped and painted. The ACADIA was booked to go on the dry dock
51   in with coal from Charlotte for Myles and the ACADIA arrived from Cleveland and unloaded 1,600 coils
52   painting and general repair work done, while the ACADIA, Capt. Towers, was having her passenger
53   This same gale detained the steamers HAMILTON, ACADIA and PERSIA at the lower end of the
54   that night for a visit to Muir's dry dock. The ACADIA and the ST. MAGNUS were expected to start their
55   part of the propeller ACADIA, versus the Government for damages to vessel and
56   done on her this winter. At MacKay's Wharf, the ACADIA, Capt. J. Clifford and Chief Engineer John Brown
57   propeller ACADIA was chartered for the annual Lighthouse Supply
58   from Toronto on the 6 June and that night, the ACADIA tied up at the Canal, to unload the steel for the
59   ACADIA departed on the Lighthouse Supply voyage on the
60   headline in the Spectator asked "Where is the ACADIA?" She had left Fort William one week before, with
61   Sault Ste. Marie, telling of the loss of the ACADIA. All hands were safe at Gargantua. She had left
62   SIR S. L. TILLEY picked up the ACADIA's crew with the exception of Capt. Clifford, who
63   the idea of seeking a replacenent for the lost ACADIA had been

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