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1   Niagara and York were blackened ruins, while Kingston with its garrison and its Naval Dockyard, with

2   could then sail up to Prescott, Brockville or Kingston. From these ports, sailing vessels took the cargo

3   grounded while on passage from Prescott to Kingston, and the QUEENSTON went ashore in Reed's Bay at

4   QUEEN CHARLOTTE, for service between Prescott, Kingston and the Bay of Quinte ports. In the country

5   steamboat was built in 1819, this time at Kingston, and she was named DALHOUSIE. Down in Montreal, a

6   1821, an advertisement was placed in the Kingston Chronicle by the forwarding firms of W. L.

7   to the Senate in Confederation Year, 1867. In Kingston, he had become the foremost steamboat operator on

8   now plying between the Head of Lake Ontario and Kingston and Prescott,

9   M'Cutcheon at Prescott; Archibald MacDonald at Kingston; Kerby & Co., Queenston; Jas. Lockhart at

10   his QUEEN CHARLOTTE. The new hull was towed to Kingston by the TORONTO, for the fitting of boiler and

11   Montreal. The ports of call were Brockville, Kingston, York and Niagara. The fare from Prescott to York

12   made the following ports of call: Brockville, Kingston, Cobourg, York, Burlington Canal, Grimsby, Port

13   ports of call as follows: Brockville, Gananoque, Kingston, Cobourg, Port Hope, York and Burlington Bay or

14   Kingston, on 24 May, Robert Drummond's little steamboat

15   BRITAIN, 1830 Prescott CANADIAN, 1833, Kingston QUEENSTON, 1824, Queenston CANADA, 1826, Rouge

16   by Henry Gildersleeve, at Drummond's shipyard in Kingston. She was named for the commander of the Royal

17   for their transshipment at both Prescott and Kingston, but from its eligibility, intend the latter to be

18   as well as the Company's agents at Montreal and Kingston, application may be made. E. Cushing, agent,

19   and once it came true, Prescott, Brockville and Kingston would no longer be trans-shipment ports and the

20   and French Creek (now Clayton). She arrived at Kingston on Thursday morning and Oswego that evening,

21   Here, the steamboat BYTOWN, built in 1835 at Kingston, conveyed them to Bytown, for yet another

22   Moyles spent a few days in Kingston before embarking on the COMMODORE BARRIE for

23   wharf and storehouse, to George F. Corbett, a Kingston man, who in 1826 had been treasurer of the

24   Lake Ontario. They had already acquired the Kingston shipyard of the late Robert Drummond, who had

25   to Upper Canada as a lad in 1828 and lived at Kingston where he learned the business of forwarding and

26   Reef while on a voyage from St. Catharines to Kingston.

27   all of the Upper Country imports from Lachine to Kingston, will devote the whole of their steamboats and

28   also run a line of steamboats from Montreal to Kingston via the Canal. Several steamers for this new

29   the ALBION, Capt. Johnston, had arrived from Kingston. She had been built at Brockville in 1838 by

30   will not take over a week to perform the trip to Kingston, by the Rideau Canal, and down by the St.

31   taken aboard the schooner, which took them to Kingston. The collision was said to have taken place off

32   resumption of work on the Cornwall Canal. The Kingston Chronicle, of 16 June, noted that the PROPELLER,

33   and the LADY OF THE LAKE, running between Kingston, the Genesee and Niagara would call at Hamilton,

34   ROYAL and the CITY OF TORONTO were both on the Kingston run. Up the canal, in St. Catharines, Louis

35   of the timber firm of Calvin, Cook & Counter, at Kingston. This partnership was dissolved in 1843, when John

36   embarked on the same vessel for the return to Kingston. The entire trip consumed a mere 50 hours,

37   FRONTENAC, which had been built in 1841 at Kingston, was placed on the Kingston, Toronto and Hamilton

38   two ports. The ST. THOMAS was built in 1842 at Kingston, being launched on 15 April, that year. Her engine

39   Kingston came word that the hull of the steamboat GREAT

40   propellers now upon our lakes. She was built at Kingston and her dimensions are: 134.4 x 22.1 x 9.6; Gross

41   as it doubtless will. She brought 2,500 bbls. to Kingston, but unshipped 200 of them at that point with the

42   steamboat similar to the one now building at Kingston for the Hon. John Hamilton. These new vessels

43   and the departures of several vessels for Kingston. The schooner CLYDE, with 1,360 bbls. flour, 100

44   beached, for we are told she was brought into Kingston, supported between two barges, and tied up near

45   The MAGNET will ply from Hamilton to either Kingston or Montreal during the remainder of this season.

46   on Lake Ontario lay from Port Dalhousie to Kingston, so Hamilton was 30 miles off the route. Secondly,

47   would, until further notice, leave Hamilton for Kingston, on Monday and Thursday mornings at 7:30; leave

48   Luther H. Holton of Montreal and F. Henderson, Kingston, made the news when she arrived from Toledo,

49   Capt. Sutherland, from Hamilton to Toronto and Kingston, CITY OF TORONTO, from Lewiston & Queenston to

50   of the irritation caused in Montreal and Kingston by these reports, as well as by the sight of

51   with the loss of nine persons. She had left Kingston and called at McDonald's Cove, near West Point to

52   bad weather was not confined to Lake Erie. From Kingston came word that the schooner CLYDE, from Hamilton,

53   19 April reported that: "The bark ELEONORA of Kingston, in attempting to come into the canal during the

54   the same day, the Kingston News was quoted as saying: "Two steamers designed

55   August came the story of the schooner LILLA of Kingston, recently returned to Quebec from a

56   Capt. Sutherland, made her first departure for Kingston on the 12

57   James Browne, Toronto, E. Browne & Co., Kingston or to Wright & Green, auctioneers,

58   Wednesday and Saturday morning for Toronto and Kingston." She had just been completed at Kingston by O. S.

59   one traveller noting that she came up from Kingston to Toronto in 13 hours, despite storms and

60   reported, that a convention was in session at Kingston for two days and that the parties involved were

61   the PRINCESS ROYAL on the Hamilton, Toronto and Kingston service, leaving Hamilton on Tuesday and Friday.

62   for three days, after the schooner WOODMAN of Kingston knocked the upper gates off Lock 4 by the Red

63   MAGNET reached port from Kingston on Saturday and has gone into winter quarters.

64   daily line would also be maintained between Kingston and Montreal and the vessels used would be the

65   mechanics. They resided for many years in Kingston where they built and sailed a number of

66   Oswego on Monday afternoon. The steamer COMET of Kingston had just discharged a cargo of flour and was

67   The second was the MAPLE LEAF, built at Kingston by John Counter and measuring 173.2 x 24.7 x

68   agleam with fresh paint, awaited word from Kingston, indicating that the ice had finally moved down

69   and Port Stanley and they stated that their Kingston shed was formerly Hooker & Holton's at the foot

70   on Tuesday, 8 April, when she arrived from Kingston.

71   FREE TRADER, from Ogdensburg-Prescott to Kingston, Oswego, Toronto, Hamilton and Port

72   QUEEN VICTORIA, Capt. T. Carradice, from Kingston, in ballast and the steamer PASSPORT, Capt.

73   and, the steamer HIBERNIA, Capt. J. Savage; from Kingston schooner ERIN, Capt. R. Craig, schooner SARAH,

74   steamer PASSPORT, Capt. Henry Twohy came in from Kingston, the CHAMPION, Capt. Marshall, arrived from

75   Rail Road perched on her decks. She cleared for Kingston on the 28th and at this late date, the steamers

76   MAZEPPA. Other arrivals were the MAPLE LEAF from Kingston and the MAYFLOWER from Ogdensburg. The ROCHESTER

77   from Hamilton to Prescott, instead of to Kingston, as in previous

78   & Co. of Montreal and Macpherson & Crane of Kingston, Prescott, Hamilton, Pt. Stanley and Bytown had

79   sold for a like purpose. Her work would be from Kingston to Prescott. The CHIEF JUSTICE ROBINSON would be

80   and, PRINCESS ROYAL. The MAGNET left for Kingston the following morning and the QUEEN OF THE WEST

81   west of the Ducks, while downbound, heading for Kingston. James Malcolmson, first mate on the steamer

82   the regular service from Hamilton to Kingston, the ARABIAN was under command of Capt. Colcleugh,

83   Hooker & Co., Prescott, Hooker, Pridham & Co., Kingston, Toronto and Hamilton, M. W. Browne and Land &

84   McGrath, arrived here yesterday morning from Kingston, Canada, with 80 tons of railroad iron for the La

85   Hamilton on 25 July, on a pleasure cruise to Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Cacouna, the Saguenay River and

86   the QUEEN CITY, Capt. Evatt from Toronto. From Kingston came the MAGNET, Capt. Twohy and the ARABIAN,

87   their little private domain on Garden Island in Kingston Harbour, were now, in addition to their timber

88   service until 1852, when she was placed on the Kingston & Cape Vincent ferry run. In 1853 she passed to

89   PASSPORT, Harbottle, Nixon & Swales, from KingstonSch. EDITH, Palmateer, Nixon & Swales, from

90   for sale or charter. She was wintering at Kingston. Applications were to be addressed to Captains

91   Capt. Crowley, would handle the River trade from Kingston down to Quebec. In addition, the fleet included

92   Henderson; schooner AMERICA, Capt. Robinson from Kingston with general cargo, no agent given. The schooner

93   the Hamilton Spectator copied a report from the Kingston News, without bothering to put a date on it,

94   to Toronto was destroyed by fire a little above Kingston. Of the 37 persons aboard this vessel, 18 were

95   Wharf, for Toronto and North Shore ports to Kingston and Cape Vincent. The CITY OF HAMILTON, Capt.

96   Montreal at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, 23 May for Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines. She left

97   INKERMAN's captain was William M. Brown of Kingston and her chief Engineer was William Dougheny.

98   quoted in part as follows: "Donald MacIntosh of Kingston, forwarder, swore: I was a joint owner of the

99   The steamer was on a voyage from Chicago to Kingston with wheat and flour and was under command of

100   and that the HURON was about to sail from Kingston. The St. Lawrence River was still

101   the 11 August, word was received from Kingston, that the barque R. H. RAE had capsized near that

102   were in the hands of Thomas Kirkpatrick of Kingston, Assignee, and the James St. Wharf was advertised

103   the 28 April, the barque R. H. RAE reached Kingston on her first voyage of the season from Chicago

104   was owned by Messrs. Fowler & Essington of Kingston.

105   labours. At 9:30 p.m. on the 28th, she reached Kingston, where she laid over for two hours and then

106   Wm. Anglin's Wharf at the foot of Barrack St. in Kingston. The fire was noticed by the watchman on the

107   CURTIS MARTIN; barque QUEBEC ashore near Kingston and the barque S. D. WOODRUFF is sunk at that

108   casualties: "schooner J. J. MORLEY ashore near Kingston; schooner GAMECOCK ashore at Pt. Peninsula;

109   from Chicago, came ashore while trying to make Kingston. She broke up and all hands were lost. Near South

110   one and a half miles above Nine Mile Point above Kingston. This vessel was originally named COMET became

111   to Kingston, 5,000 bus. of

112   to Kingston, 10,500 bus. of

113   DOVE, to Kingston, 6,200 bus. of

114   to Kingston, 8,000 bus. of

115   to Kingston, 10,000 bus. of

116   CHARLES METCALFE, Capt. McNally, from Oswego to Kingston with coal, was abandoned by her crew in heavy

117   to Kingston with 10,500 bus. of

118   to Kingston with 12,101 bus. of

119   Kingston Whig of the 12 April stated that: "A new company

120   upbound, was forced, to put about and return to Kingston. Over at Garden Island, the HIGHLANDER, now

121   the season. The PASSPORT was already laid up at Kingston and the Kingston was approaching that port. The

122   the steamer HURON came along and took her into Kingston. The EMPRESS was taken in tow by an un-named

123   the 15 April, Kingston harbour was open, the ice being weakened by a

124   to Montreal, went ashore near Presqu'ile and in Kingston, the American Line steamer CATARACT left her berth

125   & 31 October and vented most of its fury in the Kingston area. The steamer CHAMPION left Toronto at 3

126   machinery is to be built by Davidson & Doran of Kingston and the designer is S. Risley of

127   Kingston came word that Capt. Gaskin's fine barque BRITISH

128   Lewiston, Niagara, Toronto, Cobourg and Kingston. She would spend four days in the Saguenay and one

129   by Capt. Wraight and was piloted up from Kingston by Capt. Burket the manager of the line. She

130   schooner RAPID sank alongside a wharf at Kingston. She was carrying a cargo of stone from Cleveland

131   to the schooner TRADE WIND and taken to Kingston.

132   went to the scene of the wreck, but returned, to Kingston. The schooner's stern was heavily damaged and she

133   The steamer PIERREPONT was sent up from Kingston to attempt to refloat the GEORGE MOFFATT, but was

134   from Kingston told that the Royal Mail steamers GRECIAN, MAGNET

135   and quantities of staves: schooner SEA GULL for Kingston, 18,000; LILLY for Kingston, 11,000; LINNIE POWELL

136   Canal, by an item recording the first arrival at Kingston. It was M. K. Dickinson's steamer CITY OF OTTAWA

137   Toronto, Pt. Darlington, Pt. Hope, Cobourg, Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott, Cornwall and

138   for "Freight & Passenger Line from Montreal to Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines" and listed

139   propeller MAGNET, Capt. Geo. T. Malcolmson, for Kingston on the 17

140   early in 1867 by Capt. Francis Patterson of Kingston and promptly re-sold to John

141   steamer BAY STATE and sank about 12 miles below Kingston. Passengers and crew escaped in the boats as she

142   Capt. L. Middleton, also to load staves for Kingston. The AZOV then arrived, having already made one

143   will load staves at the Great Western Wharf for Kingston this

144   would be sold at Montreal. The AVON was at Kingston and the INDIAN was lying at Proctor's Wharf in

145   as a boy and resided in New Brunswick, later in Kingston, coming to Hamilton in 1842 or 1843. At one time,

146   the schooner CHINA, Capt. Woods, sailed for Kingston with a cargo of square

147   freight and passenger steamers from Montreal to Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines; and the

148   "The steamer ROCHESTER, recently plying between Kingston and Oswego, commences her regular trips from

149   Port Hope and Cobourg about dark and berthing in Kingston at 4:00 a.m. At 5:00 a.m., they proceeded through

150   There were also 950 bus. of red wheat shipped to Kingston.

151   bus. and he sent 10,569 bus. of red wheat to Kingston. There were also very small shipments of peas to

152   the following five schooners all sailed for Kingston with staves: SON AND HEIR, Capt. McIlwaine,

153   Wharf for A. P. Cockburn, by Robt. Robertson of Kingston.

154   Island, the Calvins' snug little empire opposite Kingston, was the scene of a fire in which two well-known

155   Ontario on the 27 September, while bound from Kingston to Hamilton with general cargo. Here is the

156   17 October as follows: "The propeller CHINA left Kingston Sunday evening about 6:00 p.m., bound up, having

157   Kingston, on the 28 October, Wm. Power & Co. launched the

158   the brig LAFAYETTE COOK, now owed by Parsons of Kingston, had been driven ashore near Port Stanley a day or

159   of Hamilton and Capt. Francis Patterson of Kingston. She measured 129.7 x 25.3 x 11.6 with gross

160   Hamilton on 26 April, calling at Port Hope and Kingston on her

161   would be under the command of Capt. Trowell of Kingston, who sailed the CITY OF MONTREAL in 1872. The

162   Lock 2 at 6:00 p.m. last night, after a run from Kingston to Pt. Dalhousie, about 180 miles in 15 hours.

163   while the steam barges go no further than Kingston or other Lake Ontario ports. The American

164   winter in Hamilton, were forced to lay up at Kingston. At Robertson's Shipyard, the propeller COLUMBIA

165   was loading staves at the G. W. Ry Wharf for Kingston.

166   new propeller CUBA. was launched on the 1 May at Kingston by Wm. Power & Co., for John Proctor and Capt.

167   that these large craft will go through to Kingston and there transfer the grain into barges for

168   until the end of the century and the demise of Kingston, as a port of some commercial importance, was

169   sold her the following year to John Donnelly of Kingston. She finally ended up in the Sin-Mac towing fleet,

170   picked up the passengers. Tugs were sent from Kingston to refloat the

171   temporary patching-up. She was then taken to Kingston for repairs. The schedules of the SPARTAN and the

172   refloated two days later and was on her way to Kingston for repairs. Salvagers had placed an extra steam

173   interesting item from Kingston on the 4 Sept. read as follows: "Messrs. D.

174   season, were now cursed with a grain blockade at Kingston, where all the elevators were full and a

175   FANNY CAMPBELL had, in fact, been sent up from Kingston for a cargo of oil before the navigation season

176   the season drew to a close, Kingston was enveloped in a heavy cloud of smoke arising

177   went to the schooner ORIENTAL, Capt. Campbell of Kingston.

178   in 1816 and came to Canada in 1828, settling in Kingston where he subsequently found work in the

179   the GENEVA, purchased by Dr. Springer in Kingston, had left that port on the 20 May and got to

180   was loading at the Welland Ry. Elevator for Kingston and the little steamer ADA ALICE had started

181   from Port Dalhousie with a cargo of corn for Kingston on Thursday 15 April and was not heard from. On

182   BRITAIN of 1830. The bell was taken on board at Kingston and was said to have been used at the Millburn

183   got away and unloaded her cargo of wheat at Kingston and then ran light to Brockville, where she

184   schooner UNDINE was at Kingston on the 23 June loading iron ore at the Kingston &

185   MURTON sailed from Hamilton on the 20 April for Kingston, to load scrap iron for the Ontario Rolling Mills

186   loading grain at the Great Western Elevator for Kingston and a raft of timber awaited the arrival of the

187   laden with timber and a deck-load of staves for Kingston. After trying to beat her way down the Lake, the

188   ROCHESTER and belonged to C. F. Gildersleeve of Kingston. She was renamed HASTINGS in 1876; EURYDICE in

189   when the schooner SIBERIA, bound from Toledo to Kingston with a cargo of square oak timber lost some of

190   season of 1884 began with a report from Kingston, stating that the old propeller INDIAN had

191   out. The propeller ST. MAGNUS was expected from Kingston with general cargo and was booked to load oil

192   once owned in Hamilton, was destroyed by fire at Kingston on the night of 28

193   that the CELTIC was now receiving cargo for Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott, Cornwall,

194   Hamilton on the 8 May with calls at Oshawa, Kingston, Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott and Cornwall. All

195   November she struck bottom about 2 miles above Kingston. She carried on, making water fast and sank

196   Capt. Murray, with 18,000 bus. of grain for Kingston. Capt. Murray related his experiences, as follows:

197   Hamilton in a day or two. Both were tied up at Kingston, with grain, while the Canals were closed. The

198   Winnipeg, Port Arthur, St. Catharines, Toronto, Kingston and Montreal, as well as the Canadian Marine

199   clear for Toledo to pick up a cargo of corn for Kingston, the Chief Engineer went up-town, leaving

200   timber, capsized off Nine Mile Point outside Kingston, with the loss of all hands on Saturday afternoon,

201   mastered the basics of the business, he went to Kingston in the employ of MacPherson & Crane. About 1853,

202   had got some sails on her and was heading for Kingston. Off the notorious Nine Mile-Point, he lost the

203   off Point Petre Light. She was on a voyage from Kingston to Toronto with a cargo of building stone and her

204   Kingston, the same day, came word of a collision between

205   down the Lake. The schooner LADY MACDONALD of Kingston, went ashore at Fairhaven and the Calvin tug

206   had been unreported for 9 days on a voyage from Kingston to Fairhaven, but the following day, she was

207   moved to Dunlop's Warehouse and loaded grain for Kingston.

208   of eight, he came with his parents to settle in Kingston. After attaining his schooling there, he pursued

209   Beach and Rock Bay and Jas. Reynolds was sent to Kingston to inspect the steamer SWAN, which was up for

210   her cargo lightered. She was expected to go to Kingston dry dock for

211   did. The Donnelly Salvage and Wrecking Co. of Kingston, sent the steamer PIERREPONT to the scene and by

212   M.P., Capt. John Gaskin and Wm. Leslie, all of Kingston. From Hamilton went Adam B. MacKay and Capt. J. B.

213   of Hamilton and Capt. Francis Patterson of Kingston, foundered with all hands in Lake Huron, while on

214   MURTON, which had been sold to John Saunders, of Kingston, in 1892, was re-purchased by Murton on the 13

215   propeller MYLES would winter at the Kingston dry dock where certain repair work was to be

216   propeller MYLES had wintered at Kingston and it was felt that she would not be out for

217   HAMILTON came off the Government dry dock at Kingston and the propeller MYLES was passed by the

218   staves for Duluth. She would then load grain for Kingston.

219   was in the news on the 13 May when she was in Kingston with 21,800 bus. of corn from Toledo to Montreal.

220   then go to Detroit and load. a cargo of rye for Kingston. The steamer HAMILTON, on her downward trip to

221   the W. J. SUFFELL and the T. R. MERRITT were at Kingston. The MYLES came in to lay up on the 5 December

222   tugs H. F. BRONSON and JAMES A. WALKER, left Kingston with 8 barges laden with approximately 200,000

223   necessary to send a floating elevator out from Kingston to lighter-off most of her cargo of grain. This

224   on the chance of getting a grain cargo to Kingston or Prescott. Vessels had been getting into Port

225   schooner KEEWATIN was loading wheat for Kingston on the 28 September and the WAVE CREST and the

226   lay-up for the winter. The ARABIAN came in from Kingston and departed for Fort William and the T. R.

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