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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
Chicago, IL
1   passengers and emigrants, between Montreal and Chicago, touching at all the principal ports on the
2   since, as having passed this place on her way to Chicago, on an experimental trip, being destined, if the
3   Davis & Co. and is one of the New York, Oswego & Chicago Line. She is decidedly the largest vessel yet
4   FREE TRADER arrived from Michigan City and Chicago with 11,000 bus. of wheat and sailed immediately
5   in these waters and she will leave for Chicago in a day or two. The OTTAWA is owned by Hooker,
6   Ontario, when the propeller BOSTON, bound from Chicago to Ogdensburg collided with the schooner
7   voyage of the schooner DEAN RICHMOND, from Chicago to Liverpool. The spokesman was one Richard
8   ANDREW STEVEN was at that moment, on her way to Chicago, to take on general cargo for England. The UNION
9   St. Catharines. The steamer was on a voyage from Chicago to Kingston with wheat and flour and was under
10   Kingston on her first voyage of the season from Chicago with 16,624 bus. of wheat for Messrs. E. Berry &
11   that the schooner BLACK HAWK had brought from Chicago to Sarnia, 800 bbls. of flour consigned to
12   the DEAN RICHMOND had just made the trip from Chicago to Liverpool, there was a rage for building
13   Harbor, The schooner TORNADO, with corn from Chicago, came ashore while trying to make Kingston. She
14   opposite Martin's. The schooner R. CAMPBELL of Chicago, stranded near the Water Works. None of these
15   Welland House. The CAMBRIA was due to leave for Chicago within a
16   was ready to load a cargo of ice to help keep Chicago's beer
17   to operate the smaller vessels from Montreal to Chicago. The MERRITT, of course, being too large for the
18   10:00 p.m. they boarded a train on their way to Chicago.
19   propeller WISCONSIN left Cape Vincent, bound for Chicago with passengers and cargo. Between the Cape and
20   of barley to Oswego; 5,600 bus. of barley to Chicago and 10,703 bus. of the same to Ogdensburg. There
21   bus, of barley to Toledo and 33,033 bus. to Chicago. Barley from Williamson's Storehouse went to
22   At the same time, the ACADIA was on her way to Chicago, to pick up a cargo of flour for St.
23   Lines and to run between Montreal, Hamilton and Chicago. She is, beyond a doubt, one of the finest and
24   steamer LAKE MICHIGAN, now on her way to Chicago, will take passengers from Port Colborne, on or
25   she being intended for the Montreal and Chicago trade. Her dimensions are: 136.0 x 23.9 x 11.5;
26   in order that she might rank high enough for the Chicago grain trade. She was now owned by Messrs. Wylie &
27   15 hours. Her last round trip from Montreal to Chicago and back, was made in 15 1/4 days, exclusive of a
28   was almost ready for her maiden voyage to Chicago.
29   and SCOTIA were assigned to the Montreal to Chicago, Fort William and Duluth services tri-weekly. The
30   to Chicago on the propeller LAKE ERIE, Capt. John Omand,
31   an absurdly low figures wheat being carried from Chicago to New York at 18 cents per bushel. The
32   whose function was to operate steamers between Chicago and Collingwood in connection with the Northern
33   Capt. W. J. Gamble, owned by J. B. Taylor of Chicago, berthed with a cargo of sugar, direct from
34   New England Transportation Line running between Chicago and
35   OF ST. CATHARINES and EUROPE on the Montreal and Chicago service, The DROMEDARY would be the first to
36   had sailed from Montreal on the 6 July for Chicago with general cargo. She was built in 1874 at Port
37   Bay on the 24 November, while on a voyage from Chicago to Collingwood. Laden with corn, flour and pork,
38   Capt. Hill was expected to take her place on the ChicagoCollingwood service by the 1 May. She now had an
39   21 April, said that the CANADA was loading for Chicago and the COLUMBIA had gone to Owen Sound, where
40   Co. received the following telegram from their Chicago agent: "LAKE ERIE sunk Thursday, 6:00 a.m. (14
41   CELTIC, PRUSSIA, OCEAN and SCOTIA busy on the Chicago-Montreal service. Their service between Cleveland
42   and DROMEDARY, Capt. Burrows. Montreal and Chicago service: CELTIC, Capt. Geo. Malcolmson, OCEAN,
43   Wharf, the ACADIA was on her way down from Chicago and the GLENFINLAS was bound up the Lakes for
44   was being made ready to join the Collingwood-Chicago service. At the shipyards work was progressing on
45   she sank. Her cargo consisted of corn, loaded at Chicago, plus a large shipment of valuable furs. The crew
46   Fairgrieve's CANADA was scheduled to run on the Chicago and Montreal service of the Western Express Line,
47   This scoundrel was subsequently located in the Chicago area and was reported to be in "good spirits".
48   W. M. Merritt, all of Toronto and I. P. Gray of Chicago. The SOUTHERN BELLE, Capt. Donaldson, had received
49   Ignace, Mich. stated that she had sailed from Chicago for Collingwood and was caught in a gale which
50   B. Scarth of Toronto. She was outward bound from Chicago with 26,600 bus. of corn for Collingwood when she
51   canals. The average rate on wheat last year from Chicago to Buffalo, a distance of 900 miles, was 2
52   steamer to make a voyage from Europe, direct to Chicago arrived at that port on the 28 June from London,
53   and plans furnished by Chas. P. Willard & Co. of Chicago and calculated to produce the best results as to
54   H. D. COFFINBERRY, outward bound with coal for Chicago. The force of the collision nearly rolled the
55   was also in port, en route from Montreal to Chicago. She berthed at Myles'
56   Wharf with 1,000 tons of steel billets from Chicago for the Ontario Rolling Mills
57   steam barge NORWALK arrived from Chicago on the 5 July with a cargo of steel wire for the

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