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Schooner Days X (10)In this Magistrate J. J. O'Connor, who went through the school of experience in the lake schooners before he became District Magistrate for Thunder Bay, tells of how fathers loved their sons and sailors loved their craft, ... ARROWS OF EASTER
Schooner Days X (10)In this Magistrate J. ... - Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Jun 1933 "Blue Banner of the Covenant"
Schooner Days XCII (92)How its faraway influence worked out in the operation of the famous Muir Brothers' drydock at Port Dalhousie. ALL the Muirs were ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Jun 1933 "Blue Banner of the Covenant"
Schooner Days XCII (92)... - Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Jun 1933 "Port Muir"
Schooner Days XC (90)It has been suggested, and with reason, that a suitable recognition of the enterprise of the Muir brothers, pioneer lake mariners, who did so much to develop the marine industry on fresh water, would be to name the new Lake Ontario ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Jun 1933 "Port Muir"
Schooner Days XC (90)It has been suggested, and with ... - Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 15 Jul 1933 Crowds and Sites
Schooner Days XCVI (96)Relieve the man for'ard and look out for lights and squalls. It is the Old Man's watch below and the Doctor takes a trick at the wheel. IN the ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 15 Jul 1933 Crowds and Sites
Schooner Days XCVI (96)Relieve the ... - Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Jul 1933 ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Jul 1933 ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Jul 1933 End of the Edward Blake
Schooner Days XCV (95)And some others as well. That invaluable correspondent, John Rudolph Redfern Macdonald, Goderich fisherman, better and more briefly known as "Red," comes on deck with the fate of the schooner ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Jul 1933 End of the Edward Blake
Schooner Days XCV (95)... - Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Aug 1933 Slow and Sluggish But "Good News" withal
Schooner Days XCIX (99)Like many another stonehooker, the Good News was built for better things. When her keel was laid by the brothers Ganley, her builders announced that the finished product of their ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Aug 1933 Slow and Sluggish But "Good News" withal
Schooner Days XCIX (99)Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Aug 1933 Don Dry Dock has Wandered 1,000 Miles
Schooner Days C. (100)IT was a long pull and a strong pull. It started at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and continued for two weeks and ended at Toronto. It was accomplished by the Great Lakes tugs Clark and ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Aug 1933 Don Dry Dock has Wandered 1,000 Miles
Schooner Days C. (100)Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Feb 1933 More Brothers
Schooner Days LXXIV (74)
ONE of the many pleasures in running over the names of the seventeen hundred and forty-two lake vessels listed by this compiler is the recurrence of the name "Brothers."
There was the small schooner ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Feb 1933 More Brothers
Schooner Days LXXIV (74)
ONE of the ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 21 Jan 1933 Mosquito Fleet
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Vulgar Jim's Vengeance
SCHOONER DAYS LXXI (71)
Nearly all of them scows of from 20 to 50 tons, and manned largely by French-Canadians, the "Lake St. Clair Mosquito Fleet" carried cordwood, tan bark, slabs, jags of lumber ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 21 Jan 1933 Mosquito Fleet
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Vulgar Jim's Vengeance
SCHOONER DAYS LXXI (71)Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Dec 1932 TIMBER DROGHING
SCHOONER DAYS LXVIII. (68)What the original "drogher" was Noah only knows. The name looks like an Irish one, but isn't. The word comes from our own Anglo-Saxon verb "drag." In the West Indies they call the little coasters that carry rum and sugar or ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Dec 1932 TIMBER DROGHING
SCHOONER DAYS LXVIII. (68)What the original "drogher" was Noah ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jun 1931 Great Gales
Schooner Days XXII (22)Navigation of the Great Lakes is just as perilous as navigation of the ocean. If the seas there run longer and higher, the seas here run shorter and steeper. An added factor of danger in the lakes is the peril of the tee ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jun 1931 Great Gales
Schooner Days XXII (22)Navigation of the Great Lakes ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 9 May 1931 Passages
Schooner Days XV (15)The Gulnare's and the Wood Duck's--Yacht Atlantic's record has stood for twenty-six years--Who has facts on fast passages under sail on the lakes? "Now I'll tell one, " said Doc, wiping his ...
Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 9 May 1931 Passages
Schooner Days XV (15)The Gulnare's and the Wood Duck's--Yacht Atlantic's ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Feb 1932 Frank Jackman Started to Sea at 8
Schooner Days XXXVI (36)Frank Jackman was a good sailorman, a good tug man, a good business man, and a good dresser. He was, indeed, a tonsorial and sartorial delight. To meet Frank uptown was to learn ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Feb 1932 Frank Jackman Started to Sea at 8
Schooner Days XXXVI (36)Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Jan 1932 White Oak Shavings
Schooner Days LXX (70)Had the White Oak of Oakville, been christened the G. K. Chisholm or Dominion or Alice, the chances are that her undoubted merits would not have rescued her from oblivion. As it was, her happy name gave her a personality which ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 14 Jan 1932 White Oak Shavings
Schooner Days LXX (70)Had the White Oak of ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Feb 1933 Brothers Under the Horns
Schooner Days LXXIII (73)This story of the Brothers of Bronte, came from Capt Joseph Williams, of Simcoe Point, Pickering, hale and eighty-two, one afternoon during this last Christmastide, while he was visiting his sister, Miss Daisy Williams, ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Feb 1933 Brothers Under the Horns
Schooner Days LXXIII (73)This story of the ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Feb 1933 Birthday Party
Schooner Days LXXV (75)
Capt. Joseph Williams recalls when they loaded flour in Duffins' Creek, and a Grand Trunk engine nipped the nose off a schooner that climbed the Esplanade. --Worthy scion of worthy pioneer from Kew on the ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Feb 1933 Birthday Party
Schooner Days LXXV (75)
Capt. Joseph Williams ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Nov 1932 Riddle of Lighthouse Point
Schooner Days LXI (60)This season's low water has again uncovered an ancient wreck on the south shore of the Island, just around the south-west corner, before you come to the old stone lighthouse. Every "ebb" ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 12 Nov 1932 Riddle of Lighthouse Point
Schooner Days LXI (60)This ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 16 May 1931 "Corpse-Lights"
Schooner Days XVI (16)Safe comes the ship to harbour Through billows and through gales, If once the great Twin Brethren Sit shining on her sails." Continuing his early ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 16 May 1931 "Corpse-Lights"
Schooner Days XVI (16)Safe comes the ship to harbour Through ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Mar 1933 HALF-PAST-SIX
SCHOONER DAYS LXXVII. (77)
It must have been a fearful gale on the 27th of November, 1860, for the old file of the Toronto Leader thus outlines the night's ravages, in a Kingston despatch: -- "Barque St. ... Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Mar 1933 HALF-PAST-SIX
SCHOONER DAYS LXXVII. (77)
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