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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
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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