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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
Garden Island, ON
1   as a river tug in the fleet of the Calvins of Garden Island.
2   own account, on 7 August at their shipyard on Garden Island. She slid into the water "all standing and ready
3   had finished lengthening the PRINCE OF WALES. At Garden Island, Calvin & Cook had rebuilt the schooners WILLIAM
4   the schooner TRAFALGAR, Capt. W. Williams, for Garden Island with 200 bbls. flour and 610 bus. barley, shipped
5   in December was the schooner MINERVA COOK from Garden Island with a cargo of rails. The enterprising firm of
6   Calvin Jr. The HERCULES was built in 1856 at Garden Island by Calvin & Breck and after this accident she was
7   March, several schooners had already arrived at Garden Island with cargoes of staves, loaded at Hamilton and
8   to put about and return to Kingston. Over at Garden Island, the HIGHLANDER, now reduced to the status of a
9   bound with grain for Liverpool, was towed into Garden Island by Calvin & Breck's tug WILLIAM, after losing an
10   the MAGNET had been refloated and towed up to Garden Island, presumably for an estimate for the repairs.
11   from Toronto, to load staves for the Calvins of Garden Island. She was followed by the schooner PRINCESS
12   schooners arrived to load square timber for Garden Island. The OSPREY had been repainted and redecorated in
13  Garden Island, the Calvins' snug little empire opposite
14   vessels were booked for cargoes of oak staves to Garden Island and
15   launched the schooner NORWAY at their yard on Garden Island on the 21 April. She was a sister of the SWEDEN
16   price of $20,000, but L. W. Breck & Co. of Garden Island were willing to pay $25,000, so Neelon took his
17   side-wheel tug, in the employ of the Calvins of Garden Island, who sold her the following year to John Donnelly
18   with a tow of four schooners to load timber for Garden Island. The tow consisted of the ORIENTAL, BAVARIA,
19   tug CHIEFTAIN arrived from Garden Island on the 23 May to take out a raft of
20   The D. D. CALVIN was new, having been built at Garden Is. in
21   Canal at the BeachThe Calvin Company of Garden Island, was still operating in southwestern Ontario and
22   in tow. All four had loaded timber in Toledo for Garden Island. As they proceeded down the Lake, the weather
23   S. Andrews & Son for Messrs. Calvin & Breck of Garden Island. Mrs. Dunlop, wife of Lightkeeper on Nine Mile
24   DOMINION came out of hiding and steamed down to Garden Island expecting to find the AUGUSTA there. She then

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