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 Fisher, Rob, The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (St. John's, NL), Oct 2011, 359-376     The Torrance family's correspondence in the collection of papers by Robert M. Powell and his family at Library and Archives Canada must be recognized for his discussion of the steamboats of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes in the 1830s and 1840s. This recently discovered cache of letters ...

 Ontario Repository (Canandaigua, NY), Tues., Aug. 9, 1817    

Oswego, August 7.

The Steam Boat Ontario, Capt. Mallaby, touched here this morning from Niagara on her way to Sackets harbor, Ogdensburgh, &c. She was so much crowded with passengers that the captain was under the necessity of leaving a number of applicants at Niagara, for want of more ...

      ex TRANSIT, CONSTITUTION...

      ex FLOWER CITY...

      ex TRANSIT...

      route...

      new vessel...

      revenue seizure...

      lengthened...

      The Steamer "Ontario," Captain H. N. Throop, Pultneyville, N. Y.

      winter layup mishap...

     

A Steam Boat will commence running this spring from Ogdensburgh to Niagara and Lewiston, touching at Sackett's Harbor, Oswego, Pultneyville, Genesee River.

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      Reason: aground ?
Remarks: Got off
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      Reason: aground
Lives: nil
Remarks: Got off
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      Reason: aground
Lives: ?
Remarks: Got off
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      launch & first trip...

      history...

      thief caught...

      early steamers 1816...

      route...