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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
Brockville, ON
1   and the boats could then sail up to Prescott, Brockville or Kingston. From these ports, sailing vessels
2   wealth to the forwarders of Montreal and Brockville, much to the displeasure of merchants in the Lake
3   coaches from Montreal. The ports of call were Brockville, Kingston, York and Niagara. The fare from
4   morning, she made the following ports of call: Brockville, Kingston, Cobourg, York, Burlington Canal,
5   that year listed her ports of call as follows: Brockville, Gananoque, Kingston, Cobourg, Port Hope, York and
6   on the wall, and once it came true, Prescott, Brockville and Kingston would no longer be trans-shipment
7   the Montreal stages ended their run, thence to Brockville and French Creek (now Clayton). She arrived at
8   Brockville, 30th January 1833. The Carrying Trade between
9   Your Obedient Servants, Jonas Jones, Chairman, Brockville Committee. Committee of Management at Montreal:
10   the steamboat SIR ROBERT PEEL, built in 1837 at Brockville, stopped at a cord-wood dock on Wellesley Island,
11   was tense, especially in the vicinity of Brockville and Prescott where there were numerous reports of
12   of these vessels, the ERICSSON, was built at Brockville by William Parkyn and she measured 87.0 x 16.4 x
13   for this new Company are now building at Brockville, Prescott and other places, which, it is said,
14   had arrived from Kingston. She had been built at Brockville in 1838 by William Parkyn and measured 101.2 x
15   to Sanderson & Murray, arrived in our port, from Brockville. We are informed by a gentleman who made the
16   was the same ALBION, built by William Parkyn, at Brockville in 1838. She measured 101.2 x 16.1 x 7.6 and was
17   & S. Jones of Brockville, having appointed M. W. & E. Browne as their
18   was reported to have stranded somewhere between Brockville and
19   month, the steamer OSHAWA, Kennedy, arrived from Brockville; the schooner WILLIAM RAYNER, Goldring, arrived
20   the banner of the "Independent Express Line" to Brockville, connecting with the G. W. R. R. and the Grand
21   was built in 1864 by George Chaffey & Bros. at Brockville and she was called the
22   first news of the 1863 season came from Brockville, where Messrs. George Chaffey & Brothers were busy
23   was 979. She was owned by B. W. & G. Chaffey of Brockville. She could carry 8,000 bbls. of flour, on ocean
24   Pt. Hope, Cobourg, Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott, Cornwall and Montreal. The fleet
25   had been sold by George Chaffey & Bros. of Brockville, to Charles Cameron of Hamilton and, would be
26   Rockport. The tug HIRAM A. CALVIN, which was in Brockville, was sent to the scene to pump her out. Three days
27   had a cargo of freestone from Cleveland for Brockville and was running down the Lake with a fresh wind
28   on Lake Ontario. She was built by Chaffeys at Brockville, nine years ago. She was too large to be
29   June, 1872, while bound up-river, 18 miles above Brockville, she was burned and beached on Grenadier Island.
30   cargo of wheat at Kingston and then ran light to Brockville, where she loaded rails for Hamilton. As the storm
31   was now receiving cargo for Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott, Cornwall, Valleyfield and Montreal, She
32   8 May with calls at Oshawa, Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott and Cornwall. All MacKay advertisements
33   downbound with an excursion party, returning to Brockville, from the Gananoque Fair when she rammed the tug

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This volume is copyright The Estate of Ivan S. Brookes and is published with permission of the Estate. The originals are deposited in the Special Collections of the Hamilton Public Library.