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1   earliest attempt at improving navigation on the Upper St. Lawrence had been undertaken in 1700 by the Sulpicians,

2   agreed. From the Military standpoint, the St. Lawrence Route was objectionable in that it followed the

3   of the forwarders plying their trade on the St. Lawrence route.

4   be open for business. The bottom step in the St. Lawrence system would be

5   liable as Forwarders or Common Carriers, on the River St. Lawrence, for the hazard and dangers of the navigation

6   far less dangerous system of navigation than the St. Lawrence.

7   that was contributing to the health of the St. Lawrence River forwarders was the inability of the Government to

8   United Lines of the Rideau and St. Lawrence. The Ottawa and Rideau Forwarding Company beg

9   canals being closed earlier in the Fall than the St. Lawrence, and to obviate these objections, the company

10   ordered by the owners; those forwarded via the St. Lawrence will be insured by the Company, unless otherwise

11   either via the Ottawa-Rideau system, or via the St. Lawrence, were practicing the old adage - "make hay while

12   had taken place in the forwarding trade on the St. Lawrence, and it seemed that not all were happy about the

13   of Montreal, probably the most powerful of the St. Lawrence forwarders, who were expanding their interests to

14   Canal, one on the Bay of Quinte and one on the St. Lawrence, together with an infinity of barges, Durham Boats

15   the St. Lawrence there will be two forwarding lines, those of

16   Kingston, by the Rideau Canal, and down by the St. Lawrence. She was not more than 16 hours in coming from

17   items from the canals and the St. Lawrence in 1842 included the commencement of work on the

18   the Williamsburg Canals, the last section of the Upper St. Lawrence still undeveloped. At the same time, the Welland

19   completed, and stemming the rapids of the mighty St. Lawrence. Great credit is due to Mr. McAuslan, the engineer

20   with similar cargoes, also for Kingston. The St. Lawrence was not open, but there were signs that the ice

21   the St. Lawrence, the Farran's Point Canal was completed during the

22   in the business of passenger travel on the St. Lawrence, and we quote in

23   novel feature in the steam navigation of the St. Lawrence above the city. We allude to the fine class of

24   in fact, until the end of steamboating on the St. Lawrence River.

25   magnificent steamers along the South side of the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario from Ogdensburg to Lewiston, an

26   was not a good month on the Upper St. Lawrence. The propeller WESTERN MILLER, running for

27   momentary panic over tugs on the St. Lawrence seemed, by late May, to have resolved itself with

28   whose work is already favourably known on the Upper St. Lawrence by the performance of the JENNY LIND. The

29   the WESTERN MILLER, Capt. Sughrue and on the St. Lawrence, they had the PORCUPINE, Capt. Cowley and 6 barges

30   She was built first as a barge to navigate the St. Lawrence, that was, until the spring of 1855. She came to

31   the HURON was about to sail from Kingston. The St. Lawrence River was still

32   and AMERICA and took them over the rapids of the St. Lawrence, has sold them to parties in New York City for the

33   Canal locks are smaller than those on the St. Lawrence, fifteen have already been chartered to sail from

34   to the GREAT EASTERN at Quebec! Down the River St. Lawrence and Rapids - the favourite upper cabin steamer

35   and now she was about to begin a new life on the St. Lawrence.

36   West which was now awaiting the opening of the St. Lawrence.

37   built on Lake Ontario, specially for the St. Lawrence River trade, so long promoted by H. B. Willson. The

38   berthed at Pointe au Pic Wharf, on the lower St. Lawrence. Photo: National Archives of Canada, C-4854The

39   Lake Ontario service and the UNION for the Lower St. Lawrence service. Also acquired were the U.S. steamers BAY

40   casualty occurred in the St. Lawrence Rapids on the 19 May, when the steamer L. RENAUD

41   she has been employed on the ocean and the Lower St. Lawrence."

42   grain trade from the New York route, to the St. Lawrence. A careful examination of the work, now far

43   received that the CALABRIA had stranded in the St. Lawrence River near Maitland, Ont. She was refloated two days

44   August after "a difficult voyage." Coming up the St. Lawrence River, she had struck a rock which tore away her iron

45   with a very fine editorial headed "The St. Lawrence Canals," which read as follows: "Whenever the

46   canal is to be built on the north bank of the St. Lawrence. We assert that the Montreal interests have

47   toll charges will not divert traffic from the St. Lawrence and that traffic will be so large that the

48   question as to when the canal system on the St. Lawrence would be completed produced, a rather vague reply

49   booked through to Hamilton. The voyage up the St. Lawrence was uneventful and at 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, she

50   passed Fame Point Reporting Station on the lower St. Lawrence on the 11 August on her delivery voyage and was

51   canal system on the St. Lawrence was finally completed with the opening of the

52   MICHIGAN had grounded at Ogdens Island in the St. Lawrence River while bound up from Montreal, but that she had

53   of 26 feet from Duluth to tide-water on the St. Lawrence. In November of 1895, a depth of 21 feet would be

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