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Going To Destruction - The harbor at Goderich , Ontario, for which the Dominion Government a year or two since granted a large sum to convert the same into a place of shelter for bessels in time of great peril, is, according to information strictly reliable from that place, going to ... | |
Drowned - A sailor named Ryder , of Kingston , fell overboard from the schooner Madeira , while she was going out of Port Colborne , on Tuesday. A boat was launched to pick him up, but the sea was so heavy that the vessel had to return to port, leaving the boat. A tug was sent out to their... | | Trial Trip of the Perseverance.
This staunch and finely-molded propeller, the pioneer of the steam line now fitting out by the Welland Railway Company to run in connection with their road, steamed out a few miles on the lake yesterday, for the purpose of testing her machinery.
She left Port... | | Another Seven Hundred Ton Steam Vessel
The man who some centuries ago said the earth was round was considered a mad-man and a heretic, and placed in imprisonment for his knowledge. He who first discovered the application of steam for propelling bulk lingered his lifetime out in poverty. So with... | |
The Ship Carpenters and Caulkers Union
Mr. Editor, - Allow me space for a few words to correct a statement in you much esteemed journal in reference to the Union on the Welland Canal. I would just state that the Society lately formed is not broken up; and as to the organization, no man could... | |
St. Catharines, Monday, June 17 -- Fire at Port Robinson: Abbey's Ship-yard Destroyed.
We understand that the workshops in Messrs. J.P. and J. Abbey's Ship Yard, Port Robinson, were set fire to last night, and completely destroyed. The loss is not stated, nor if there was any insurance. It is... | |
St. Catharines, Monday, June 10 - Ship-Carpenters Strike - A few months since an organization call "The Welland Canal Ship Carpenters and Caulkers Union," was formed in this town, all the hands employed on the line of canal becoming members. They demanded an increase of wages and pay every... | |
A Strike - The ship carpenters and caulkers of this town, and also of Port Dalhousie and Port Robinson, struck this morning for an advance in wages. They demand $1.75 per diem, instead of $1.50, which has been the wages for some time back. They also require weekly payments of their earnings. A... | |
Five schooners, 43 canal boats, and five tugs are being constructed or their building is contracted at Buffalo.
The ship carpenters of Detroit struck for higher wages on Friday. They demand $2 a day on old work and $1.75 on new work, which is an advance of fifty cents on the old price.
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The ship carpenters of Oswego are on a "strike" for an advance of wages. They were getting $1.50 a day, and demand $1.75.
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The ship carpenters and caulkers of Buffalo are on strike, the object of which is to force employers to pay cash instead of orders.
... | | St. Catharines Journal (St. Catharines, ON), March 10, 1859, page 2page 2
The works of the Welland Railway , on the eastern side of the piers, are only rivailed by the equally solid and necessary works of the enterpising firm of Donaldson, Andrews & Ross , on the south side of the waste weir, who have been engaged for the last year in constructing a ship- yard ... | | St. Catharines Journal (St. Catharines, ON), August 12, 1858, page 2page 2
The barque R.H.Rae , built in this town last year by Messrs. Donaldson & Andrews for the Messrs Rae of Hamilton , capsized off Duck's Creek on the 4th inst. The crew were picked up by the propeller Colonist , and landed at Kingston . The Rae, we understand, was uninsured.
... | | St. Catharines Journal (St. Catharines, ON), October 8, 1857, page 2page 2
Launch Of The " R. H. Rae "
On Monday last [October 5], Messrs. Donaldson & Andrews launched one of the most beautiful, and as nautical men assure us, most sea-worthy barques ever set afloat from the St. Catharines Ship-yard. As a piece of naval architecture she is pronounced second to ... | |
Boat Stealing - On Tuesday morning, the 13th instant, by break of day, a man was discovered on the premises of Mr. May, between the mouths of the 15 and 16 Mile Creeks; and on being addressed, he asked the loan of some tools to mend a boat he had on the beach below. Mr. May went down with him,... | |
The three-masted schooner Cherokee, built at Kingston and launched this spring and sailed direct from Toronto to Liverpool, is reported to have been sold by Capt. Gasklin for about £3000 sterling. She is to be employed in the trade of the coast of Africa. Negotiations are said to be on foot... | |
Collision On Lake Erie - The steamers St. Lawrence, bound down, and Queen City, going up, came into collision on Friday night, near Fairport. The former had stopped her engine, and the latter had her helm hard a-port, and had swung round so as to be headed down the lake - she struck the other... | |
Port Dalhousie - The value of the imports at this port, during the quarter ending the 5th instant, was £12,557, 14s 9d. The exports are small this quarter, but we will exhibit a large figure in the next one.
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Steamer Burnt - On Saturday evening as the steamer Queen Of The West was lying at the City Wharf, about ten minutes after her arrival from Toronto, a dense quantity of smoke was observed, by persons on the wharf, issuing from her side. From the fact that the boat had so recently arrived and ... | |
Welland Canal - The collector of Port Dalhousie reports an increase on the tolls of upwards of £500 on the month just ended over the receipts of June, 1852, and of £1,400 increase on that part of the season that has transpired over the same period of last year. When the reduced tolls... | |
Canal Tolls - The receipts on the Welland Canal in May last were £2,334, being an advance of £270 on the same month in last year.
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Ste. Marie Ship Canal Commenced - The Sault Ste. Marie Journal of the 17th instant says - "The Sault Ship Canal, which our citizens have read about for twenty years past, has this week been actually commenced. We have seen the ground broken, the spade, pick-axe and wheel-barrow in motion; and... | |
To-day the Mazeppa sails from St.Catharines to Oakville, and from thence to Toronto, touching at Oakville on her return. The trip will be enlivened by our local band. The Mazeppa offers the best mode of travelling to all the chief ports on the opposite side of the lake, as persons travelling by... | |
Canal Tolls - The tolls received on the Government Canals in the month of April, was in this year £4753, and in last £2083; of this the Welland Canal yielded £4228 this year, against £1991 in the same month of last year. The number of vessels through this canal last April... | |
Lake Ontario has been unusually high for some weeks past. It is well known that its waters rise and fall at intervals as much as eighteen inches or two feet. It is usual for the waters to be somewhat higher in the spring than in the middle of the summer. But their present height is some eighteen... | |
A sturgeon weighing 87 lbs was caught in Belleville last week.
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The Emerald from Chippawa to Buffalo, is again on her trips and we hope she will be well sustained.
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The Mazeppa is on her old route again. She
commenced last Thursday and will continue to ply every
day, (Sunday excepted), between St.Catharines and
Toronto. The boat has been re-fitted and will be found
very comfortable, and with the active and gentlemanly
attention of Capt. Donaldson, she will... | | Vessels Passed Through The Welland Canal
British Vessels are marked thus + - steamers *
April 27 Belle Sheridan Oswego Toledo salt
Carlton Do Do
Indiana Toledo Do pork
Ocean Detroit Do flour, wheat
Acorn Port Dover Do lumber
Robert Wood ... | |
Port Stanley has now a brisk and business-like appreance. The Mohawk steamer runs twice a-week from this place to Buffalo and back, touching at the intermediate Canada ports. The Telegraph plies from Port Stanley to Cleveland, twice a-week, also touching at Morpeht; and when the trade requires... | | Vessels Passed Through The Welland Canal
April 20 Tuscarora Erie Lewiston coal
Forest Oswego Sandusky
New Haven Do Do
Britannia Do Port Dover
Rough & Ready Toronto Thorold
New Brunswick St.Kitts Bear Creek
Carlton Toledo Oswego... | |
Canals - The Erie Canal was opened on the 20th inst., but navigation is now stopped by a break below Schenectady. The St.Lawrence Canals will be opened on the 1st May. The Welland Canal was opened on the 31st March, and up to yesterday, 290 vessels had passed through.
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April 13 Abigail Oswego Black River
Emerald Do Saginaw
Raleigh Do Cleveland
Wheaton Do Toledo
Ireland Do Sandusky
D. Church Do Erie
Elgin Do Port Burwell
Portland Sacketts ... | | "eegs" exactly as spelled in the paper. Merrittville soon changed its name to Welland. | |
A serious accident occurred on our canal, on Monday morning last, by which the upper gates of Lock No. 2 were broken by a vessel passing through - the Queen of the West, of Oswego; but under the prompt and diligent exertions of the superintendant, Mr. Woodruff, we have no doubt the damage has ... | | The name of the vessel launched is not known and neither are the other two vessels mentioned. | | Vessels Passeed Through The Welland Canal
March 31 New Haven, Oswego, Sandusky
Emblem, Do, Do
Mary Francis, St.Catharines, Port Sarnia
T. Shickeluna, Do, Port Stanley
Petrel, Do. Port Dover
Mary Do, Dunnville
April 1 Welland, Oswego,... | |
St.Catharines, Port Dalhousie & Toronto
The Steamer Mazeppa
Is now undergoing extensive repairs at considerable
expense, with new cabin and furniture, and will be
ready about the 16th of April to resume her trips
between Port Dalhousie and Toronto.
The Mazeppa will leave St.Catharines at ... | |
Navigation - The levels near the town are now full and clear of ice, and the vessels which have wintered in some of them, have removed to localities more convenient for assuming their summer run. To-morrow the canal will be open throughout, and all that bustle may soon be looked for which... | |
Launch - The winter has not been an idle time for Shickeluna. He has on the stock a vessel of 116 feet keel, 24 feet beam, and 10 feet hold, which is to be launched on Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock.
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