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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
Highlander
1   Louis Shickluna launched the schooner HIGHLANDER on the 1 May. The steamboat GORE, Capt. Robert
2   in December, the steamboat HIGHLANDER, Capt. Stearns, made the first passage through the
3   the NEW ERA and the COMET and a new vessel HIGHLANDER (ii) was expected to be in service by 1 July,
4   Line this year, would consist of the steamer HIGHLANDER, Capt. Stearns, OTTAWA, Capt. Putnam and LORD
5   ADMIRAL. The steamers MAYFLOWER, CHAMPION and HIGHLANDER were scheduled to run from Cape Vincent to
6   Quinte and as a result, she was replaced by the HIGHLANDER. Another vessel that went to the Bay at this time,
7   and called at Oakville and Port Credit, or the HIGHLANDER, Capt. McBride, which left Hamilton at 7:00 a.m.
8   BAY STATE, Capt. A. Reid from Cape Vincent; the HIGHLANDER, Capt. Perry and the QUEEN CITY, Capt. Evatt from
9   to replace the ill-fated OCEAN WAVE. The HIGHLANDER and the CHAMPION would form the Toronto and Cape
10   preparation for the season, the first being the HIGHLANDER, Capt. P. G. Chrysler from Edw. Browne's Wharf,
11   appeared to be in danger of sinking. The steamer HIGHLANDER towed her back to Upton & Browne's Wharf, where
12   from the foot of the Lake indicated that the HIGHLANDER was almost ready to leave Cape Vincent and that
13   Fire Brigade organized an excursion aboard the HIGHLANDER, on the 30 September, leaving Hamilton, James St.
14   when she was destroyed by fire, along with the HIGHLANDER, while wintering at Garden
15   return to Kingston. Over at Garden Island, the HIGHLANDER, now reduced to the status of a sidewheel tug in
16   19 December. These were the HERCULES and the HIGHLANDER. The HERCULES was built at Garden Island by

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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.