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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
Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company
1   Wharf in Kingston Photo: Author's CollectionThe R. & O. steamer ALGERIAN stranded in the Split Rock
2   to this port during the season will be the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., composed of the amalgamated Canadian Navigation
3   11 September, the steamer CORINTHIAN, of the R. & O. fleet, stranded close to the Grafton Pier. At the
4   first of the R. & O. steamers to appear was the ALGERIAN on the 5 May,
5   Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. announced that the first of their steamers to
6   300 tons of cargo for the G. W. Ry. and the R. & O. steamer CORSICAN with passengers and
7   Sunday morningg 17 July, the R. & O. steamer CORSICAN, attempting to ascend the Galops
8   the same day, the first of the R. & O. steamers, the ALGERIAN, arrived as did the
9   president and vice Pres., respectively, of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co.
10   same day, came word of a collision between the R. & O. steamer ALGERIAN and the steam barge TECUMSEH off
11   R. & O. steamer CORINTHIAN sailed from Toronto on the
12   Hamilton Gas Light Co. and on the 10 May, the R. & O. Line steamer ALGERIAN made her first appearance of the
13   a meeting with M. K. Connolly, president of the R. & O. Line, during which the Latter hinted that if
14   Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. announced, on the 7 August, that the old steamer
15   rumours were rampant about opposition to the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., who seemed somewhat undecided as to whether they
16   the evening of 8 August, the R. & O. steamer ALGERIAN, Capt. Dunlop, had the
17   with coal for the Hamilton Gas Light Co. The R. & O. steamer HAMILTON arrived from and cleared for
18   the Long Sault Rapids on the 21 September. The R. & O. steamer BOHEMIAN had come up to Dickinson's
19   steamer HAMILTON of the R. & O. Line was expected to start her season about the 1
20   storm of autumn came on the 7 September and the R. & O. steamer HAMILTON was delayed, she having gone
21   to an announcement on the 18 May, the R. & O. steamer COLUMBIAN was to replace the HAMILTON,
22   R. & O. steamer ALGERIAN made her first appearance in the
23   regular sailings in competition with the R. & O. Line.
24   R. & O. steamer HAMILTON went aground at Point Iroquois

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