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- Hamilton Harbour, ON
- 1 end of Lake Ontario. Here they discovered Burlington Bay, a fine body of water in the shape of a triangle
- 2 East side of the Bay was formed by a sand bar, four miles long, known
- 3 place for a village. It was separated from the Bay by dense swampy forest and, it lacked the other
- 4 Since there was no road between the village and the Bay, and since shipmasters were not likely to use the
- 5 through Burlington Beach was about to change Burlington Bay into Hamilton Harbour. Therefore, he decided that
- 6 repair breaches in north pier, in the Lake and the Bay, and to repair head of breakwater.Pointing,
- 7 Wm. Bergin at York; John Ross at Dundas, and at "Burlington Bay" - John L. Williams, Andrew T. Kerby, Abel Land,
- 8 Kingston, Cobourg, Port Hope, York and Burlington Bay or Hamilton before ending her run at Niagara. Her
- 9 Stone Tavern, situated at Port Hamilton, on Burlington Bay, in front of which is a very extensive wharf and
- 10 piles to be delivered on the Southeast shore of Burlington Bay, at the point where the line of location of the
- 11 were extending their wharf 40 feet farther into the Bay and that Messrs. Land & Routh have been busily
- 12 sunk at Port Nelson last autumn, was towed into Burlington Bay on Sunday last by the steamer CHIEF JUSTICE
- 13 to a luncheon and a pleasure trip around Burlington Bay. The chair was taken by Donald Bethune, supported
- 14 and Sandusky, as soon as the ice was out of Burlington Bay.
- 15 hero of the day. He saw the fire as he came up the Bay and, not waiting to discharge his passengers,
- 16 now stand was quietly embosomed in the waters of Burlington Bay. Not only has ground been reclaimed, substantial
- 17 of the steamer CITY OF HAMILTON for service on the Bay of Quinte and as a result, she was replaced by
- 18 by farmers coming from the other side of the Bay, to our market, owing to the fact that the man in
- 19 the coal oil refineries, which is emptied into the Bay, is having a very deleterious effect upon the
- 20 the Hamilton Spectator sent a reporter across the Bay to Alexander Brown's Wharf in East Flamboro to
- 21 know of no pleasanter diversion than a sail on the Bay and we are certain that on the day approaching,
- 22 Capt. Spain, will give three excursions on the Bay during the week, starting Thursday. She will
- 23 boiler being drawn along James Street, toward the Bay and upon inquiry, we found that it was intended
- 24 steamers were in service on the Bay for the summer. The DENNIS BOWEN, Martin Stally,
- 25 afternoon was quiet and calm and the waters of the Bay lay placid and unruffled, but there was wanting
- 26 the large craft that come into sight on reaching the Bay, are Capt. John Malcolmson's two fine propellers
- 27 reads, in part: "the extension of the line to Burlington Bay was awarded to Alex. J. Brown and the earthwork
- 28 and by the steamers FLORENCE and DENNIS BOWEN on the Bay. The propeller L. SHICKLUNA took 800 passengers,
- 29 that "There is still a large body of ice in the Bay, but around the Great Western Wharf, the water is
- 30 through Hamilton and around the west end of the Bay appeared insurmountable and so the company had
- 31 of Red Hill Creek, in the southeastern corner of the Bay, was let to Mr. Hiram King. The contract for
- 32 "Extraordinary preparations are being made at the Bay for the coming boating season. Mr. Bastien has
- 33 the vessel passed out of the little inlet into the Bay, a violent squall struck her and tore away her
- 34 he has nothing to do during the winter, when the Bay is frozen over, but for five or six months in the
- 35 buoys on their port side when proceeding up the Bay.
- 36 the entry of yet another steamer into the Burlington Bay resort trade on the 19 April. The item read: "We
- 37 pleasure boat. It was a beautiful afternoon - the Bay was shining, the sky was cloudless and
- 38 landing-places for passengers on and about Burlington Bay." The Street Railway having made it so convenient
- 39 on the way up. The tug had to break some ice in the Bay in order to shepherd her flock to the Great
- 40 steamer ARMENIA of Picton, would be operating on the Bay this
- 41 Leopold Bauer's JULIETTE, which ran briefly on the Bay. It read as follows: "Lovers of boating and
- 42 the 22 November, the Bay and the docks were beginning to take on a bleak
- 43 Oaklands property on the North side of the Bay went on the auction block on 4 April and, the
- 44 inlets was a mere six inches thick, while out on the Bay, it was even less, thanks to a mild winter. There
- 45 1892-1893 was a cold one and the ice-cutters on the Bay were making money. By the 9 January, the ice was
- 46 Larkin took the MASONIC out for a trial run on the Bay.
- 47 and that a channel should again be cleared into the Bay.
- 48 repaired and strengthened. The south pier on the Bay side, at the Canal had undergone repairs, 140
- 49 aldermen. The sewage of the City is carried into the Bay and that beautiful sheet of water is gradually,
- 50 Mills Co. While here, he took a look around the Bay and paused at the ruins of the N. & N. W.
- 51 in Galt on the 5 June. The plant was built on the Bay side, not far south of the Brant House and a spur
- 52 and the ice cutters were again at work on the Bay.
- 53 load lumber for Oswego. However, two days later, the Bay was
- 54 the Government to place a range light on the Bay-end of the pier, as they had been doing for some
- 55 injured, when the main boom fell on him. Out on the Bay, a small boat containing four men was overturned
- 56 was 30 feet long and was to be test-run on the Bay before shipping. Boatbuilder T. W. Jutten, at the
- 57 steamer MAZEPPA ended her season on the Bay on 4
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