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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
Eclipse
1   the new season. On the 24 March, the steamboat ECLIPSE, from Toronto, attempted to enter Hamilton, but
2   writer had reached Hamilton on the steamboat ECLIPSE, "said to be the fastest on the
3   10 April 1847 with the arrival of the steamboat ECLIPSE from Toronto and the departures of several
4   and Cobourg. Other services were supplied by the ECLIPSE, Capt. Edw. Harrison, between Hamilton and
5   Toronto service was maintained by the steamboat ECLIPSE, Capt. Edward Harrison during the 1848
6   callers, NEW ERA, MAGNET, CITY OF TORONTO, ECLIPSE and ROCHESTER being very active in the package
7   up the ice in the harbour and the steamboat ECLIPSE, Capt. Edw. Harrison made her first call of the
8   next began to babble about the MAGNET and the ECLIPSE, so we must assume that he found these vessels at
9   laid up the steamers, with the exception of the ECLIPSE, which is invariably the first on the Lake and the
10   vessel plying on the Canadian waters, except the ECLIPSE."
11   bird, Capt. Edward Harrison of the steamboat ECLIPSE, made his first voyage of the season west from
12   and subsequently he had the ST. GEORGE, COBOURG, ECLIPSE and the SOVEREIGN before taking over the MAGNET
13   some structural changes, had been renamed ECLIPSE.
14   and his crew. About 3:00 p.m. the steamer ECLIPSE came into the canal and landed her passengers.
15   This arrangement made the owners of the steamers ECLIPSE and the DENNIS BOWEN very unhappy, since their
16   prevented from so doing by Capt. McMeekin of the ECLIPSE. McMeekin, appearing before the Police Magistrate,
17   and the Ocean House, as well as to Oaklands. The ECLIPSE and the DENNIS BOWEN handled the traffic to
18   Wharf, 15 cents return. Also, from MacKay's, the ECLIPSE was running two round trips to Oaklands and the
19   Saturday, 14 August, the steamers GENEVA and ECLIPSE had a minor collision when both tried to reach
20   would be on the Beach service also, but the ECLIPSE had been sold to owners on the Upper Lakes. Her
21   carried the story of the loss of the steamer ECLIPSE, formerly Leopold Bauer's JULIETTE, which ran
22   left me alone on the barge and went aboard the ECLIPSE. The weather was fine and I was up until we passed

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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.