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1   way up the canal from Port Dalhousie, through St. Catharines, Merritton, Thorold to Port Robinson were

2   and one hundred "brave and loyal militiamen" of St. Catharines and district to Toronto. However, the BRITANNIA,

3   other important event concerns St. Catharines where a Maltese shipwright named Louis Shickluna

4   on Snake Island Reef while on a voyage from St. Catharines to

5   route of the canal from Port Dalhousie to St. Catharines, where we had a full opportunity of testing the

6   she proceeded up the Welland Canal as far as St. Catharines and worked remarkably well in the Canal. On her

7   was launched at Louis Shickluna's shipyard in St. Catharines, while at Port Dalhousie, a schooner was under

8   were both on the Kingston run. Up the canal, in St. Catharines, Louis Shickluna launched the schooner HIGHLANDER

9   Dock Company, during the last winter, arrived at St. Catharines, on her way through the Welland Canal, bound for

10   of pork and lard, consigned to Geo. Barnett, of St. Catharines. She was only about nine days, coming down,

11   report from the Quebec Gazette, reprinted in St. Catharines on the 12 September gives us more news about the

12   the 13 April, was a cold blustery day in St. Catharines, but not bad enough to discourage a large crowd

13   there were two yards at Port Dalhousie, two in St. Catharines and one at Port

14   St. Catharines, on the 12 April, Louis Shickluna launched two

15   Gross 341; Net 226. Her master was Capt. King of St. Catharines.

16   St. Catharines Journal greeted Spring with the following

17   news from St. Catharines stated that Louis Shickluna launched the schooner

18   St. Catharines, Louis Shickluna launched the brig LAFAYETTE COOK

19   the YOUNG LEOPARD, Capt. Rogers, followed her to St. Catharines. The CITY OF HAMILTON returned to Toronto and the

20   which the MAZEPPA would return to the Toronto-St. Catharines route.

21   as to whether the MAZEPPA would operate on the St. Catharines and Toronto service, she having been sold to

22   Stanley. The propeller BRANTFORD would connect St. Catharines with Montreal. The Ogdensburg and Boston Rail

23   the steamer REINDEER, which was passing through St. Catharines, upbound, just below Lock 5, suddenly charged

24   St. Catharines, the new steamer WELLAND was being built under the

25   cleared Oswego on Wednesday evening, bound to St. Catharines, Edward Browne placed two sailing notices in the

26   schooner PRINCESS VICTORIA, McLeod, sailed for St. Catharines.

27   SCOTLAND, Capt. S. Patterson. Their Montreal - St. Catharines service would be handled by the BRANTFORD under

28   This was a heavy loss for the citizens of St. Catharines, who had an investment of £15,000 in the vessel

29   23 May for Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines. She left Kingston at noon on Wednesday, 27 May

30   on which the bridge is to turn are being made at St. Catharines, and the bridge is being framed at the railway

31   with the schooner JESSIE, Capt. Larkin of St. Catharines. The steamer was on a voyage from Chicago to

32   of 1,500 bbls. of flour at the Union Mills in St. Catharines and steamed away down the canal. At 3:00 a.m. the

33   the news on the 29 September, as reported by the St. Catharines Journal. She had cleared Pt. Dalhousie about 9:00

34   Dalhousie to load 20,000 feet of pine lumber for St. Catharines and the schooner FORREST arrived from Oswego with

35   the barque CAMBRIA was successfully launched at St. Catharines. She was built by Louis Shickluna for the

36   of Louis Shickluna's shipyard at St. Catharines, reported to have been taken in 1863, showing the

37   P. G. Chrysler, from Hamilton with calls at St. Catharines, Lewiston, Niagara, Toronto, Cobourg and Kingston.

38   from London, Hon. John Carling, M.P.P.; from St. Catharines, Sylvester Neelon and Thos. Rodman Merritt; from

39   from Montreal to Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines" and listed these vessels: HER MAJESTY, Capt

40   to the underwriters by her owner John Riley of St. Catharines. The cargo amounted to 400 tons, part of which was

41   the previous year by Louis Shickluna at St. Catharines.

42   from Montreal to Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines; and the steamer OSPREY, owned by A. D. MacKay,

43   repairs on Shickluna's Floating Dry Dock at St. Catharines and that the CITY OF LONDON was expected to

44   her regular trips from Hamilton to Toronto and St. Catharines taking the place of the ROTHESAY CASTLE. She

45   moonlight excursion to Oakville and a Sunday in St. Catharines was offered by the steamer ROCHESTER, leaving

46   Malcolmson in Hamilton; by Norris & Neelon in St. Catharines; by S. F. Holcomb in Toronto and at Montreal, the

47   way to Chicago, to pick up a cargo of flour for St. Catharines.

48   vessel, LAKE MICHIGAN, was in waiting at St. Catharines to receive the party and to make her trial trip

49   side-wheel steamer SILVER SPRAY to J. O'Neil of St. Catharines, who is to run her on Lake Ontario. Though we

50   For particulars, apply to Capt. Larkin at St. Catharines, A. D. MacKay, MacKay's Wharf,

51   Here is the account of this loss from the St. Catharines Journal of 30 September: "The Welland Ry. Co., we

52   The pipefitters were Burrow, Chatfield & Co. of St. Catharines. Her captain will be Wm. Rollo, with first mate

53   GLENIFFER and she was built for James Norris of St. Catharines.

54   on the 22 May by Melancthon Simpson, at Lock 5, St. Catharines. The christening was performed by Miss Blain,

55   PRUSSIA on the 7 June for a syndicate of St. Catharines business and professional men. She was christened

56   Central Line rammed the lower gates of Lock 2 at St. Catharines. The lock happened to be full and the upper gates

57   The PERSIA was just new, having been built at St. Catharines by Melancthon Simpson, for James

58   August, when the schooner HENRIETTA P. MURRAY of St. Catharines ran into the propeller BRUNO, doing about $400

59   was rejoicing in St. Catharines when the steamer SILVER SPRAY now owned by Milloy

60   St. Catharines, the Weekly News published a letter, written on

61   the 22 April also, St. Catharines saw two launchings at Shickluna's yard, the

62   are the schooners CECELIA, of Windsor, MALTA of St. Catharines and the AGNES HOPE of Hamilton. Off Birely's

63   spell out the final chapter of the port of St. Catharines and slow decay would set in, once the Second

64   She has a low-pressure engine 22 x 21, built in St. Catharines by George N. Oille. She ran as a ferry between

65   service from Montreal to Toronto, Hamilton and St. Catharines. The ASIA, ARGYLE, COLUMBIA, CALIFORNIA, EUROPE,

66   propeller LAKE ERIE, Capt. John Omand, leaving St. Catharines on the 26 July, was advertised by John B. Young,

67   1844. He then found employment in shipyards at St. Catharines and other ports, until he signed on as ship's

68   of the Lake & River Steamship Co., arrived at St. Catharines on the 25 August, with approximately 100 tons of

69   have to be moved elsewhere, to the detriment of St. Catharines." This, of course, was never done and the shipyards

70   hours of Monday, 12 July, the propeller CITY OF St. Catharines, Capt. Jas. McMaugh, was sunk in Lake Huron after

71   steamer ADA ALICE had started running between St. Catharines and Port Dalhousie. Captains Thompson and Stally

72   BELLE, just renamed EMERALD, which was built in St. Catharines in 1875 and was wintering in Toronto. There were

73   and with him, the great days of shipbuilding in St. Catharines faded into

74   mid-May, news from St. Catharines stated that the new steam barge under

75   by Melancthon Simpson for J. C. Graham of St. Catharines. Her dimensions were 136.0 x 28.4 x 7.4; Gross

76   on the 3 July included the S. S. EDSALL from St. Catharines, the schooner JESSIE H. BRECK at the Grand Trunk

77   a mile above the Niagara Street Swing Bridge at St. Catharines on the 17 August, to make some slight repairs to

78   was raised and on the 22 August, Mr. Wardell of St. Catharines, while digging out the soggy corn, discovered a

79   Oshawa to load wheat, DOMINION outward bound for St. Catharines to load wheat and the L. SHICKLUNA, expected with

80   OCEAN was expected from Montreal and would go to St. Catharines to lay up for the winter. The EUROPE was on her

81   occasional return cargo of grain from Toronto or St. Catharines.

82   The vessel, a product of the Shickluna yard in St. Catharines, was owned by R. Williamson of Hamilton and J. S.

83   went to a hotel before taking the train home to St. Catharines."

84   BESSIE BARWICK had been built in 1866 at St. Catharines by Louis Shickluna, and had a registered tonnage

85   most of the winter on the Shickluna dry dock in St. Catharines being repaired. She had been involved in a

86   the Boards of Trade from Winnipeg, Port Arthur, St. Catharines, Toronto, Kingston and Montreal, as well as the

87   McGiffin. The ST. LOUIS was built in 1877 at St. Catharines, by Louis Shickluna, and had a registered tonnage

88   the progress of the electric street railway in St. Catharines for two years, admitted publicly that they were

89   engine had been compounded. by W. E. Wright of St. Catharines. The MYLES was expected to be the first to leave

90   with all her flags flying. She had wintered in St. Catharines and was ready to leave on Friday 25 April, but

91   OCEAN is show in the second Welland Canal at St. Catharines. Astern of her is th EUROPE and at the right is

92   most of the winter on the Shickluna dry dock in St. Catharines being repaired. She had been involved in a

93   on the 27 May. She had been built in 1864 at St. Catharines by Melancthon Simpson and had a registered

94   and sank in ten minutes. Mrs. Strachan of St. Catharines, the elderly cook, was the only one lost on the

95   to salt water, damaged two gates on Lock 6 at St. Catharines. This steamer was fresh out of the yards of the

96   Senkler of St. Catharines, as sole arbitrator, began an arbitration on the

97   OF WINDSOR, on a regular trip from Toronto to St. Catharines, took all four gates off old lock 1 at Port

98   PERSIA came in from Montreal and cleared to St. Catharines. Myles' Wharf was a busy place, with the schooners

99   Hamilton District Orange Lodge and take them to St. Catharines. They would board the steamer at the Hamilton

100   Adam B. MacKay and Capt. J. B. Fairgrieve, while St. Catharines was represented by Capt. Sylvester Neelon. Capt.

101   She had come in from Montreal and cleared for St. Catharines. The schooners WHITE OAK, VIENNA and FLORA CARVETH

102   the winter. The next arrival was the OCEAN, from St. Catharines, on her way to Montreal. She tied up at Browne's

103   day, the GARDEN CITY was expected, from St. Catharines with about 700 people coming to see the Military

104   getting anxious. Capt. John Clifford was from St. Catharines, but Chief Engineer Jas. H. Brown, 2nd. engineer

105   of Cleveland, knocked three gates off Lock 7 at St. Catharines. The dislodged gates were washed 500 feet down the

106   service and the propeller PERSIA arrived from St. Catharines and cleared for

107   from Erie. This vessel had been built in 1864 at St. Catharines by Melancthon Simpson and had a registered

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