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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
Detroit, MI
1   THAMES was burned by a raiding party from Detroit. Throughout 1839, the situation along the
2   would be ready in June to go to Cleveland and Detroit. In this they were disappointed. Probably due to
3   for construction of a steam ferry to operate at Detroit. Her dimensions were to be 162 x 32 x 10 and she
4   which read as follows: "N. P. Stewart of Detroit, who purchased the steamers CANADA and AMERICA and
5   600 tons for Montreal, Hamilton, Cleveland and Detroit. She made a fair passage despite light winds. We
6   was at Bruce Mines and would finish loading at Detroit and the ETOWAH would be coming out in the Autumn.
7   iron ferry steamer to ply between Windsor and Detroit, which is now nearing completion... Their
8   tonnage of 123; net 83. She had been rebuilt at Detroit in 1863 by J. W. Woolverton and was registered.
9   December, the schooner ALBERT of Detroit, was driven ashore at Van Wagner's Beach. At
10   on the shipping scene by taking an excursion to Detroit on Monday 3 July, sailing from Rank's Dock in
11   that she was to be placed on the Bear Creek to Detroit service.
12   salvage steamer W. S. IRELAND was sent up from Detroit to refloat her. Word from Chatham stated that the
13   into the shipbuilding and repairing business in Detroit as Gordon Campbell & Co. In 1862, the business
14   N. Oille. She ran as a ferry between Windsor and Detroit, but in 1871, she was badly damaged by fire at
15   a steamer which the proprietors have acquired at Detroit will ply between Hamilton and the Beach, as will
16   to operate them at a loss. They were to go to Detroit, to load grain for
17   was received from Detroit on the 4 October, of the loss of the propeller
18   a very large number of people now, they went to Detroit in order to see about building steamers there. In
19   would provide routes to both the Niagara and Detroit frontiers, in competition with the existing Grand
20   September. It was stated that Frank E. Kirby of Detroit, was the naval architect responsible for the
21   10/15/25 x 12, designed by Redfield H. Allen of Detroit and built by the Kerr Engine Co, of Walkerville,
22   and S. Taylor of New York, Frank E. Kirby of Detroit and Mr. McNichol, manager of the Hamilton Bridge
23   CITY OF WINDSOR was built in 1883 at Detroit by the Detroit Dry Dock Co. for the Detroit,
24   for Amherstburg. Capt. Corson would, then go to Detroit and load. a cargo of rye for Kingston. The

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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.