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- 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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