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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
Beauharnois Canal
1   in 1842 included the commencement of work on the Beauharnois Canal, and resumption of work on the Cornwall Canal. The
2   of the canals, the Beauharnois, was, in fact, officially opened on the 13
3   has descended the rapids, and passed through the Beauharnois Canal in perfect safety, drawing 7 1/2 feet of water.
4   the steamer BYTOWN destroyed two gates in the Beauharnois Canal.
5   removed four gates from one of the locks on the Beauharnois Canal, thereby effectively closing navigation on that
6   to pass without a spade being put into the Beauharnois Canal? The Lachine Canal was finished promptly
7   the work? Why leave only 9 feet of water in the Beauharnois Canal when there is 14 feet in the
8   she broke a cross-head key while in the Beauharnois Canal, with the result that one of the cylinder heads
9   smashed several gates on one of the locks in the Beauharnois Canal, causing $1,000 damage to the lock. The 2nd
10   and sometime, in the not too distant future, the Beauharnois Canal, with its short locks and only 9 feet of water,
11   washout on the Beauharnois Canal delayed the arrival of the propeller OCEAN on the
12   Prescott and Cornwall. The replacement of the Beauharnois Canal was not

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