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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
Comet
1   picked up the following morning by the schooner COMET, Capt. Bray of Oakville. While on the subject of
2   over the success of the steamers BRITANNIA and COMET in the Quebec-Hamilton trade and one cannot help
3   PASSPORT and the NEW ERA were withdrawn and the COMET was maintained on the Hamilton to Montreal run
4   service with the PASSPORT, the NEW ERA and the COMET and a new vessel HIGHLANDER (ii) was expected to
5   ERA, Capt. Maxwell and Purser Farrell and the COMET, Capt. Taylor and Purser
6   also reported the sudden demise of the steamer COMET, owned by Macpherson & Crane. It reads: "Steamboat
7   trio was the MAYFLOWER, which was the rebuilt COMET, under command of Capt. Patterson, late of the
8   were the MAPLE LEAF from Kingston and the MAYFLOWER from Ogdensburg. The ROCHESTER was expected to
9   St. Slip and, with the assistance of the steamer MAYFLOWER, moved the burning steamer up the Bay until she
10   the PRINCESS ROYAL and the ADMIRAL. The steamers MAYFLOWER, CHAMPION and HIGHLANDER were scheduled to run
11   burns, but was able to return to Hamilton on the MAYFLOWER.
12   the Hamilton Spectator, stating that the steamer MAYFLOWER, Capt. MacDonald, would depart from Hamilton on 25
13   on the Hamilton to Montreal mail service. The MAYFLOWER, which had operated on the Cape Vincent Line in
14   astern of her, while the PEERLESS and the MAYFLOWER, together with several schooners, were endangered
15   it; the MARY SELINA ashore at Chaumont Bay; the COMET ashore at Big Sodus; propeller COASTER went to
16   steamer COMET, Capt. Francis Patterson, was lost on the night of
17   56,000, LADY MORTON, Capt. Keith, 14,000 and MAYFLOWER, Capt. Miller, 30,000. The schooner VICTOR, Capt.

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