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- Port Dalhousie, ON
- 1 in November, they sailed into the new harbour of Port Dalhousie, at the mouth of Twelve Mile Creek where each in
- 2 era was dawning. All the way up the canal from Port Dalhousie, through St. Catharines, Merritton, Thorold to
- 3 Cobourg, York, Burlington Canal, Grimsby, Port Dalhousie and Niagara. Her agents were listed as: W. D.
- 4 Hamilton to Niagara, with calls at Grimsby and Pt. Dalhousie. The GORE, Capt. Thomas Dick was in service
- 5 Oswego with general cargo and then cleared for Port Dalhousie. We are indebted to the St. Catharines Journal
- 6 in the circuitous route of the canal from Port Dalhousie to St. Catharines, where we had a full
- 7 inspection of the inhabitants, she returned to Port Dalhousie, on her route back to Oswego. We cordially wish
- 8 Shickluna's shipyard in St. Catharines, while at Port Dalhousie, a schooner was under construction in Abbey's
- 9 that, by the 1860's, there were two yards at Port Dalhousie, two in St. Catharines and one at Port
- 10 was uneventful and the vessel made good time to Port Dalhousie where her ascent of the Welland Canal began. She
- 11 Capt. Donaldson, was operating between Lewiston, Pt. Dalhousie and Wellington Square. Her agent was H. Langdon
- 12 the WELLAND, which presumably went to the Port Dalhousie-Toronto run, for which she was
- 13 Lake was the burning of the steamer WELLAND at Port Dalhousie on the morning of 15 August, as steam was being
- 14 most sea-worthy barques ever set afloat from the Port Dalhousie shipyard. As a piece of naval architecture, she
- 15 in St. Catharines and those of R. & J. Lawrie at Pt. Dalhousie. She encountered very heavy weather on the lake
- 16 made its cautious way from Port Colborne to Port Dalhousie, over the new tracks of the Welland Railway. The
- 17 when she was struck by a squall while entering Port Dalhousie. She rammed one of the piers, staggered into the
- 18 day, the schooner CLIFTON arrived light from Port Dalhousie to load 20,000 feet of pine lumber for St.
- 19 regularly at those places, as well as at Port Dalhousie."
- 20 a company to operate steam vessels from Port Dalhousie to Quebec City and even raised some of the
- 21 & Andrews were building a new steamer for the Pt. Dalhousie-Toronto
- 22 CHINA, in tow of the tug YOUNG LION from Port Dalhousie, where the schooner had been lengthened during the
- 23 word of the launching at Andrews' Shipyard in Port Dalhousie, of the schooner VICTOR for Edward
- 24 Shipyard at Port Dalhousie launched the hull of the steam barge DROMEDARY on
- 25 launched from the yard of Mr. Andrews at Port Dalhousie on Saturday, the 24 April. She is a perfect model
- 26 to Montreal service. She was then loading at Port Dalhousie.
- 27 Malcolmson met an untimely death by drowning in Port Dalhousie harbor on the 4 August. At the time he was acting
- 28 the propellers ACADIA and INDIAN departed for Port Dalhousie, while the arrivals of the day included the
- 29 the second of which was launched yesterday at Port Dalhousie."
- 30 way at 4 o'clock for the trip down the canal to Port Dalhousie and the shipyard of S. Andrews &
- 31 then hove in sight and since she was bound for Port Dalhousie, she relieved the CITY OF CONCORD of her extra
- 32 Browne's schooner SOUTHAMPTON was expected from Port Dalhousie, where she had laid up. Most of these vessels were
- 33 Port Dalhousie, on Saturday 26 April, S. Andrews & Son launched
- 34 Muir's Shipyard at Port Dalhousie,who usually stuck to repair work, launched the
- 35 propeller AFRICA at Port Dalhousie during a blockade on the canal. Alongside the
- 36 p.m. last night, after a run from Kingston to Pt. Dalhousie, about 180 miles in 15 hours. Her last round trip
- 37 by Milloy of Toronto, began service between Pt. Dalhousie and Toronto. Prior to this, those citizens of St.
- 38 the tug YOUNG LION passed through Lock 1 at Port Dalhousie with the dredge SAMPSON in tow. The dredge would
- 39 this city. She arrived in port this morning from Pt. Dalhousie in two hours and forty minutes and made the
- 40 Grey & Bruce Railway." Continuing with news from Port Dalhousie, the Globe noted that the dredge J. H. MUNSON
- 41 halves were now afloat and would be towed to Port Dalhousie to be re-joined during the winter. Mr. Bell of
- 42 The scow was said to be bound from Bronte to Port Dalhousie, so what she was doing in Hamilton is
- 43 both left for Toronto. The CALIFORNIA headed for Port Dalhousie. Messrs. Flatt & Bradley were completing the
- 44 Port Dalhousie came word that the CALABRIA, which had been lying
- 45 from Port Dalhousie stated that the schooner LAURA was loading at the
- 46 on Sunday and sailed for Muir's Dry Dock in Port Dalhousie to have it installed. The frame weighed 1,100
- 47 barge ARK left Port Dalhousie on the 6 April in tow of the tug NEELON for
- 48 M. Robertson's schooner NORTHMAN. sailed from Port Dalhousie with a cargo of corn for Kingston on Thursday 15
- 49 the steamer were re-joined in Muir's Dry Dock at Pt. Dalhousie and she left there on the 7 November for
- 50 her extensive rebuild at Muir's Dry Dock in Pt. Dalhousie. She was lengthened by 34 feet and having made a
- 51 Capt. Dunn, which had been on the Toronto-Port Dalhousie route for the past five years and on the night of
- 52 and the arrival of the CELTIC from dry dock at Port Dalhousie. The schooner WHITE OAK was loading grain at the
- 53 steamer CITY OF TORONTO, berthed in Port Dalhousie, caught fire about 9:00 p.m. on the 31 October and
- 54 They then proceeded on board the steamer for Port Dalhousie with the good wishes of
- 55 steam barge ALBION and barge ARK arrived from Port Dalhousie. They went to the Grand Trunk Wharf to load timber
- 56 on the 28 April and the ST. MAGNUS cleared for Port Dalhousie to have her wheel changed. The LAKE MICHIGAN was
- 57 at Myles'. The GULNARE was due to be towed to Pt. Dalhousie by the propeller MYLES, to have two new masts
- 58 Co. was building a large iron caisson for use at Port Dalhousie, to close the gap in the towpath above Lock 1
- 59 the schooner foundered about 1 ½ miles east of Port Dalhousie. The SCOTIA reached the safety of the Niagara
- 60 CALVIN, well known in Hamilton, steamed out of Port Dalhousie on the afternoon of the 27 May, with the
- 61 early in April she was refloated and towed to Port Dalhousie by the MAGGIE MASON for dry
- 62 the MACASSA was on Muir's dry dock in Port Dalhousie, her crew had the opportunity of witnessing a race
- 63 family. The JESSIE H. BRECK was built in 1873 at Port Dalhousie by S. Andrews & Son for Messrs. Calvin & Breck of
- 64 was her fourth voyage after being repaired at Port Dalhousie.
- 65 left on the 20 April to go on Muir's dry dock at Port Dalhousie and the schooners SINGAPORE, JOHN McGEE and MARY
- 66 general cargo, after which she would go to Port Dalhousie for the winter. The expected winter fleet
- 67 repairs. The propeller OCEAN, Capt. Towers, left Port Dalhousie for Hamilton and the resumption of her Montreal
- 68 of going to Toronto - she had cleared for Port Dalhousie and an appointment with Muir's Dry
- 69 resplendent in new paint, was about to leave for Port Dalhousie and a visit to Muir's dry dock, only just vacated
- 70 LAKE MICHIGAN departed for Muir's Dry Dock in Port Dalhousie. The steamer ACACIA began service to Bay View on
- 71 LAKE MICHIGAN, having returned from Port Dalhousie, was taking on general cargo for Montreal on the 2
- 72 steamer Acacia in Lock 1 at Pt. Dalhousie. Photo: Author's CollectionWord received from Port
- 73 took all four gates off old lock 1 at Port Dalhousie. Entering the lock, the engine was stopped, but
- 74 schooner DAUNTLESS left for Port Dalhousie, to be dry-docked and rebuilt. The propeller
- 75 steamer MODJESKA left for Port Dalhousie dry dock on the 2 May and was expected to enter
- 76 for Oswego. The MODJESKA left that night for Port Dalhousie, to have her bottom scraped and painted. The
- 77 she would be towed to Muir's dry dock at Port Dalhousie. The schooner W. J. SUFFELL came in with coal from
- 78 O. MacKay left for Port Dalhousie on the 5 September, to view the smouldering
- 79 September and lost her jib boom. She put in to Port Dalhousie to make repairs. This same gale detained the
- 80 on the 19 November. She was built in 1867 at Port Dalhousie by S. Andrews and registered 144
- 81 her off the mud. The LAKE MICHIGAN departed for Port Dalhousie that night for a visit to Muir's dry dock. The
- 82 The MACASSA would leave on the 20 April for Port Dalhousie to have her hull painted and would begin her
- 83 28 April. The ARABIAN cleared on 25 April for Port Dalhousie where she was to go on dry dock before setting
- 84 A. B. MacKay. This schooner was built in 1874 at Port Dalhousie by S. Andrews and her dimensions were 138.0 x
- 85 shaft and had to be taken to Muir's dry dock at Port Dalhousie.
- 86 Oak Orchard and he was compelled to beat back to Port Dalhousie and seek
- 87 W. J. SUFFELL, Capt. J. Corson, sailed for Port Dalhousie on the chance of getting a grain cargo to
- 88 for the Ontario Tack Co. The MACASSA left for Port Dalhousie dry dock to have a blade replaced on one of her
- 89 the 30 October, the steamer MACASSA went to Port Dalhousie for dry docking before returning to Hamilton to
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