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Burlington Canal

1   Act was passed authorizing construction of the Burlington Canal. The canal commissioners were John Aikman, Wm.

2   BROCK and REBECCA AND ELIZA passed through the Burlington Canal, having wintered in Hamilton. Each were partly

3   always guided by wisdom. The contractor on the Burlington Canal was building timber cribs and filling them with

4   July 27, 1827. Work to be done to complete the Burlington Bay Canal,

5   July: "Proposal for completing the works at the Burlington Bay Canal will be received by the Subscriber until Friday,

6   July 27, 1827. Work to be done to complete the Burlington Bay Canal,

7   regarding arbitration in connection with the Burlington Canal. The arbitrators were stated to be Daniel

8   still-unfinished Burlington Canal had sufficient depth of water and the passage of

9   readers that the dredge was still working in the Burlington Canal and that it was expected that the work would be

10   of call: Brockville, Kingston, Cobourg, York, Burlington Canal, Grimsby, Port Dalhousie and Niagara. Her agents

11   GENERAL BROCK, Capt. Kerr, had sailed from the Burlington Canal, with whiskey, pork, and passengers for York.

12   this season of 1834, the Burlington Canal was said to be completed, at least until the next

13   Toronto at 2 p.m. with stops at Oakville and the Burlington Canal. At Toronto she made connection with the TRANSIT,

14   J. Kerr, a magistrate and commissioner of the Burlington Canal but the choice was a poor one. Kerr bungled the

15   for tenders for the reconstruction of the Burlington Canal. Six days later, news was received that the

16   10 August 1843, noted that the activities at the Burlington Canal had started. It stated: "The railroad from the

17   the storehouse of Mr. Russell, the contractor on the Canal job. The Hamilton Gazette, whose reporter threw

18   1844, there passed through the Burlington Canal, 81,597 bbls. flour, 1,172 bbls. pork, 18,430

19   feeling the need of a swing bridge over the Burlington Canal, had submitted a petition to the Dept. of Public

20   to carry locomotives from the Genesee to the Burlington Canal, commencing on the 25

21   The CANADA left her wharf at 10:44 a.m., reached the Canal at 11:11, stopping a short time while the NEW ERA

22   that the man in charge of the ferry across the Burlington Bay Canal will not attend to the ferry before six in the

23   vessel launched was a scow ferry for use at the Burlington Canal. She was built by Charles Lee and was christened

24   sail with a good westerly breeze and headed for the Canal. The ETOWAH was a barquentine, built in 1863 at

25   cargo of coal went ashore two miles south of the Burlington Canal on the night of Friday, 3 May and was abandoned

26   the Railway Wharf every evening at 5:30 p.m. for the Canal and Wellington Square. She returns from the

27   She took her passengers directly to the piers at the Canal.

28   Street (Malcolmson's Wharf) on the 14 June, for the Canal Piers and Dynes' Wharf. On the same day, the tug

29   the 5 July, Capt. Campbell, the light-keeper at the Canal took delivery of the new Storm Signal. The

30   this summer, Capt. Campbell, the light-keeper at the Canalwas kept busy extinguishing fires on the piers. In

31   struck by a sudden squall about 7 miles east of the Canal and was dismasted. The main mast snapped off at

32   & North Western Ry. rails had reached the Burlington Canal and work was being done on the foundations for

33   21 October stated that the swing bridge over the Burlington Canal would be placed in position in a few days. The

34   camps - for, and against a swing bridge over the Burlington Bay Canal. Petitions were drafted and sent to His

35   was open. The engine and eight cars plunged into the Canal killing the engineer and the head-end

36   supplies to the light stations, arrived at the Burlington Canal on the evening of Saturday, 15 July and after

37   made by the Government for crossing the Burlington Canal by ferry, has become inadequate. The ferry was

38  The Canal Ferry was again in the news on the 30 August,

39   sailing from the Simcoe Street Wharf to the Canal piers, while the steamer SOUTHERN BELLE was

40   was a hot time at the Canal on Friday, 30 May. The Spectator had this to say:

41   12 April, informed its readers that repairs to the Canal Piers were being carried

42   schooner OLIVER MOWAT, entering the Burlington Canal on the 19 July, let go an anchor, which promptly

43   GENEVA. She left for Grimsby, stopping at the Canal to pick up extra passengers and then grounded on

44   "a floor to work on". The old scow ferry from the Canal had been used for the heavy pieces of scrap. The

45   by a diver and his assistant, arrived at the Burlington Canal on the 24 July to carry out an inspection of the

46   took soundings throughout the length of the Burlington Canal at the end of June, he found a least depth of

47   Ry. crew in charge of the swing bridge over the Burlington Canal were informed that navigation would not open for

48   7:30 p.m. on the 13 October, the storm signal at the Canal was hoisted, indicating a moderate gale from the

49   Burlington Canal, looking out toward the Lake, from the top of the

50   JOHN PAGE commenced work at the east end of the Burlington Canal on the 4 August. Accompanied by a tug and two

51   remarked that since the dredge was working in the Canal, it might be a good idea if the Rush Bed was

52   the MACASSA was landing a group of women at the Canal, one of them lost her balance and fell off the

53   dredging of the Canal was completed by mid-October, giving a minimum

54   Timber--The Canal at the BeachThe Calvin Company of Garden Island,

55   was outward bound, when about half way through the Canal, she rammed the yacht VOLUNTEER and cut her in

56   she appeared to be holding a steady course for the Canal. As she came closer, they saw the broken gaff

57   As the storm sent its great rollers through the Canal, the scow ferry, usually an inert lump of

58   were kept busy carrying capacity loads to the Canal and the Grand Trunk Ry. ran special trains from

59   office and phoned Capt. Campbell at the Burlington Canal.

60   two warning lights, d1stant and near. but the Burlington Canal bridge had but one. Hall passed, the light at 15

61   McKeown lived and Shaw was found floating in the Canal next

62   was no damage to the track, the wreckage in the Canal did not close the channel and the MODJESKA,

63   In the afternoon, a crowd of people gathered at the Canal to watch her breast the seas rolling through and

64   her canvas and headed for the Canal. Entering the Canal, the hand fog-horn was sounded, but the bridge

65   a large club house on the south side of the Burlington Canal, a little to the west of the Light Station and a

66   job. By the time this outfit was approaching the Burlington Canal piers, the tug had soaked up so much water that

67   the official opening of their new club house at the Canal on the 28 May. About 500 persons

68   that a road swing bridge be built at the Burlington Canal to replace the ferry. Plans were to be

69   ore from Two Harbours, Minn. She went aground in the Canal when she tried to enter the harbour, but after

70   STUART H. DUNN entering the Burlington Canal n 1900 with a cargo of coal. Photo: Author's

71   from Two Harbors with iron ore, was stuck in the Canal for an hour, but succeeded in working herself

72   of iron ore and successfully passed through the Burlington Canal, a feat which can only be attributed to good luck.

73   her second attempt to reach Hamilton. Entering the Canal on the 16 October, she stuck and remained hard

74   from Toronto. Capt. Crawford was unable to find the Canal piers and anchored come distance south of them

75   On the 24 November, she stuck at the entrance to the Canal and was released later in the day by the dredge

76   and the high and low water levels in the Burlington Canal, which, coupled with the inefficiency of the

77   Foundry Co. of Toronto, who disembarked at the Canal to enjoy a day's outing at the Brant

78   Government included $1,500 for the scow ferry at the Canal and $6,000 for further dredging in the Harbour.

79   to build. a new scow ferry for service at the Canal. The schooner L. D. BULLOCK arrived with coal from

80   NEWSBOY had a rough time of it. Approaching the Burlington Canal, her captain decided that his chances of getting

81   port with coal from Oswego for McIlwraith. The Burlington Canal was in such poor shape that, with her draft of

82   before the gale, successfully passed through the Canal and anchored in the Harbour. She was built in

83   the steamer ACACIA towed the new ferry across to the Canal. It would be placed in service the next

84   the raising of the ELEONORA which sank in the Burlington Canal and the hulls of the QUEEN OF THE WEST and the

85   steamer MACASSA fouled the ferry cable at the Canal on the 2 August and broke the flywheel on the

86   scow ferry at the Canal was again out of service on the 29 August, having

87   of those people who found it necessary to use the Canal ferry must have been wearing exceedingly thin by

88   was essential to build a swing bridge over the Burlington Canal. The delegation consisted of the Members of

89   Works was going to build a road swing bridge at the Canal was made public on the 13 July. An appropriation

90   Government dredge NIPISSING was working in the Burlington Canal and was bringing up much coal and wreckage from

91   on the sub-structure for the new swing bridge at the Canal would begin on the 1

92   for the Sawyer Massey Co., got stuck in the Burlington Canal on the 24 October. The schooner DAUNTLESS was

93   strengthened. The south pier on the Bay side, at the Canal had undergone repairs, 140 feet of it being

94   morning. The OCEAN arrived at the entrance to the Canal at 8:00 a.m., passed through Lock 15 and entered

95   Ocean House, just south of the Burlington Canal was burned down on the 17 July along with the

96   preliminary work for the bridge foundations at the Canal and on the 5 October, the steam barge ABERDEEN

97   that body to do something about having the Burlington Canal dredged. It was signed by the Hamilton Iron &

98   when there was a gale raging and the water in the Canal was too low. Capt. A. W. Crawford was busy laying

99   was being shipped from McIlwraith's Wharf to the Canal for the building of the roadway approaches to the

100   still heavy. The dredge, having finished work in the Canal, was moved across to the site of the Hamilton Iron

101   with 475 tons of coal. She got aground in the Burlington Canal, drawing a mere 10'6", but her crew succeeded in

102   continued to take so little interest in the Burlington Canal. Even with the improved Lake level, there was but

103   with a cargo of coal, she scooted into the Burlington Canal with the aid of a good north-east wind. Capt.

104   the 6 June and that night, the ACADIA tied up at the Canal, to unload the steel for the road swing bridge.

105   bowsprit in the steelwork of the new bridge at the Canal. Also, in port that day, was the schooner CHENEY

106   as soon as the Hamilton Radial Railway reached the Canal. Further north along the Beach, Messrs. Goldie &

107   were appointed to man the new swing bridge at the Canal and the Hamilton Spectator went to the trouble to

108   vessel-men were urging that the range lights on the Canal be made red, as the lights at the Hamilton Blast

109   SEGUIN dragged bottom all the way through the Burlington Canal. This vessel was built in 1890 at Owen Sound by

110   as chairman. Capt. Campbell, light-keeper at the Canal was invited to attend. When the question of an

111   MACASSA and MODJESKA were already stopping at the Canal four times each way. The fare on the MAZEPPA was

112   beach. The sailing yacht ZELMA was heading for the Canal and her skipper intended to tie up at the piers,

113   a modest $6,000 repairing the North Pier at the Burlington Canal.

114   by the schooner ELLA MURTON, coming through the Canal. The schooner's jib-boom raked the forward deck of

115   in the estimates for repairs to the piers at the Burlington Canal.

116   launch MAPLE LEAF to ferry its passengers across the Canal.

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