c 1870  Steamer MAGNET berthed at Pointe au Pic Wharf, on the lower St. Lawrence Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, Hamilton Harbor, 1826-1901 .

  1902  Coloured postcard of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company steamboat HAMILTON (ex MAGNET) as it runs the Lachine Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River. This and a companion photograph of the HAMILTON can be seen in the Detroit Publishing Company site at the Library of Congress. Undivided...

  ca 1875-1882  Stereoview purportedly of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company steamboat MAGNET in the rapids of the Saint Lawrence River. This is actually an edited version of the picture of the CORSICAN as the MAGNET had a walking beam that is not evident in this view. According to the Montreal...

    The Royal Mail Line Steamboat MAGNET From the collection of the Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology. Illustration from Walter Lewis, "Steamboat Promotion and Changing Technology: the Careers of James Sutherland and the Magnet," Ontario History , vol. LXXVII, no. 3 (September 1985).

  1893  Engraving of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company passenger steamboat MAGNET published in John Ross Robertson, Landmarks of Toronto : A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York From 1792 until 1833, and of Toronto From 1834 to 1895 [volume 2] , Toronto: J. Ross...

  c 1880  Photograph of Steamer MAGNET

  c1860  Stereoview of the former Royal Mail Line steamboat MAGNET lying alongside a second steamboat on the waterfront of Quebec City. The Citadel is visible on the top of the heights. A full-rigged ship lies on her bow. "No. 500 Quebec from Middle of River With the Saguenay Steamer "Magnet."-- Captain...

  c 1871-75  Stereoview of the Canadian Navigation Company steamboat MAGNET in the Lachine Canal Parks' studio was located at 188 St. James Street from 1871-75. "Canadian and American Scenery, By J. G. Parks." J.G. Parks, Photographer, 188 St. James Street, Montreal" Reverse: "Views of Montreal, Quebec,...

  1847  launch &c. Niagara

  1877  Marshal's sale

  1871  vessel sale

  1879  dismantled

  1863  Reason: overboard Lives: 1

  1863  Reason: aground Lives: nil Hull damage: $1,500 Remarks: Got off

  1855  Reason: collision Lives: nil Remarks: Uninjured

  1860  Reason: collision Lives: nil Hull damage: $1,000

  1869  Reason: broke machinery

  1869  Reason: aground Remarks: Got off

  1883  Reason: aground Remarks: Got off

  1874  Reason: broke walking-beam &c. Hull damage: $3,000 Remarks: Repaired

  1866  Reason: collision Hull damage: $100 Remarks: Repaired

  1866  Reason: aground Lives: nil Hull damage: $100 Remarks: Got off

  1849  Reason: sunk Lives: nil Hull damage: $4,300 Cargo: included Remarks: Got off

  1859  Reason: collision Lives: nil Remarks: Uninjured

  1872  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off

  1894  Reason: aground Remarks: Got off

  "Had Long Career As Marine Engineer," Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), 17 Dec 1932  Had Long Career As Marine Engineer Former Sec'y-Treas. of Rockport Navigation Co. and Vice-Pres. T. I. Navigation Co. The death occurred at the home of James Hickey, 94 College Street, on Friday of James Gillie, well-known marine engineer in his eighty-ninth year. Deceased was born in ...

  Down The Lane, Knows Every Treacherous Spot In St. Lawrence Rapids, "Knows Every Treacherous Spot In St. Lawrence Rapids," The Standard-Freeholder (Cornwall, ON), 12 Jul 1935  If Captain Joseph Alfred Ouellette made any pretence of being an author and decided to write a book he might properly call it "Life On The St. Lawrence River." For Captain Ouellette has been travelling up and down the St. Lawrence longer than any living man and knows every nook and cranny, crag...

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