Search Results

Search:

Your search for Lachine, QU returned 20 entries.

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
Lachine, QU
1   From Montreal, it would be hauled in wagons to Lachine and loaded in Durham boats. The earliest attempt
2   L. Whiting & Co., Prescott, and Whiting & Crane, Lachine. The two partners, W. L. Whiting and Samuel Crane
3   in Montreal before taking the stage coach to Lachine, where they took passage on the steamboat OTTAWA
4   then under construction for service on the Lachine, Ottawa River and Rideau Canals. It further
5   Sanderson & Murray's barge ERICSSON arrived at Lachine, on Sunday afternoon, but as the canal was closed,
6   of towing all of the Upper Country imports from Lachine to Kingston, will devote the whole of their
7   June, and in fact, the ST. DAVID did arrive at Lachine on the 2 June, having made the run from
8   more than 16 hours in coming from Brockville to Lachine, a distance of 140
9   Saturday 11 October, the steamboat ALBION left Lachine with a party of Government officials and ascended
10   them, an interesting fact. There is now lying at Lachine, a propeller steamboat, the IRELAND, Capt.
11   is intended for the run from this port direct to Lachine. Another of the same class of steamer, to be
12   and in July, the new steamer PASSPORT visited Lachine, where "a large concourse of people" saw her. The
13   Ogdensburg Line, a party of gentlemen went to Lachine by railroad and returned to Montreal on the
14   the absence of danger in the running of the Lachine still fresh in mind, we read this report: "We
15   deliver their cargoes, without breaking bulk, at Lachine or Montreal .... We are certainly disposed to
16   COMMERCE sailed from Lachine at 5:00 a.m. on 2 May, bound for Port Stanley,
17   running for Macpherson & Crane, grounded off Lachine and sank in the Lachine Canal, thereby stopping
18   and the ST. LAWRENCE, were forced to winter at Lachine.
19   to Montreal. Capt. Cameron, it seems, ran the Lachine in darkness against his better judgement, and
20   the steamer L. RENAUD became a total loss in the Lachines. Great difficulty was experienced in removing the

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 
Search index by Categories of entries:

Return to Home Port


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.