Lake Ontario Has Record For Lost Vessels Mysterious disappearances of ships that were lost on Inland Lake By C.H.J. Snider Did the "Homer Warren," wallowing in the welter of sulky slumbering seas as she pushed her way homeward just a week ago tonight hear the throb of the "Ontario's" ...

    Schooner Days No. 1 A White Squall Many a good story had the late Magistrate J.J. O'Connor, of Port Arthur. District Magistrate for Thunder Bay, to tell of schooner days on the Great Lakes. He was an Ontario County boy and went sailing early out of Whitby. Here is one of his tales, as related...

    Schooner Days No. No. XXIII Great Gale of 1880 For forty years almost. Capt. David Reynolds was master of the Royal canadian Yacht club launches Esmeralda, Hiawatha and Kwasind. His trips across the Bay, on their half-hour schedule, would have taken him twice around the world. "Dave," as ...

    SCHOONER DAYS XXXV JANUARY PASSAGE of the ELLA MURTON Talk of the time Capt. John Williams fitted out the Speedwell in February and won the harbor master's hat, or its equivalent, with a cargo of ice for the Rochester breweries, suggests other "early arrivals," or late passages...

    SCHOONER DAYS No. 34 (By C.H.J. Snider) JANUARY PASSAGE OF THE ELLA MURTON Talk of the time Capt. John Williams fitted out the Speedwell in February and won the harbor master's hat, or its equivalent, with a cargo of ice for the Rochester breweries, suggests other "early arrivals," or late...

  Snider, C. H. J., Rigs, Salt and Fresh, "Rigs, Salt and Fresh," Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 3 Mar 1934  Schooner Days No. 236 Rigs, Salt and Fresh By C.H.J. Snider On the Great Lakes rigs of sailing vessels sharply differed from those on salt water. Sailors had a laugh the other day over some innocent letterpress about the model of the schooner Tern." Those of them who had been to the ...

    Schooner Days No. 254 by C.H.J. Snider As said last week, every anchor has its story, and we promised to go on with those shackled to the big 700- pound anchor bedded in the Lake where the vanished Port Granby had a pier. We shall do so, but it will have to be next week, for in the meantime...

    Schooner Days No. 253 Little Lost Ports: Port Granby By C.H.J. Snider Bowered in green and drowsing in the sun, Port Granby feels the sap of new life stir in its veins when summer reopens the half dozen homes which have been closed all winter and thereby increases the population by one ...

    Schooner Days No. 256 Port Granby's Anchor - Some Ships It held And Some It Didn't By C.H.J. Snider Port Granby pier was 125 yards long, from storehouse to pierhead, and two vessels could lie at it, head and stern, on the east side, where the water was deepest. Vessels waiting their turn for...

    For Breakfast an 1812-er in the Camera By C.H.J. Snider Schooner Days no. CCXXC Some of the pictures in the Parsons' store at Oswego are photographs- Oswego harbor in storm and calm, freshet and frost, bristling with masts or filled with funnels; yachts, schooners, captains, crews, coal ...

    AND ONLY THE DOG CAME HOME Schooner Days no. CCXCIII C. H. J. Snider Drawn 60 years ago in crayon is a picture of Parson's ship chandlery store at Oswego of the schooner Gilbert Molison, straight of stem and tall of spar, white, two masted, and typical of the American vessel of her time. She...

  Snider, C. H. J., Last One Built on the Lakes, "Last One Built on the Lakes," Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Apr 1937  Schooner Days, CCLXXXIX (289) In Oswego N.Y., it is a civic boast that all streets lead to the water. Those running east and west reach the Oswego River, those running north and south Lake Ontario. When we rolled into Oswego that bright March morning we were talking about a week ago, our first ...

    Sending a Schooner over Niagara Falls: once She Was a British Man-of-war They had some fool ideas of fun a hundred years ago, among which "Schooner Days" begs to include sending somebody else over Niagara Falls. The objection applies whether the somebody else is a man in a barrel or a pig in a...

    SCHOONER DAYS DLXVI SAILOR SAID HIS PRAYERS WHEN THE QUEEN JUMPED This week's weather, with old Ontario alternately dimpling and rippling like a duckpond, and leaping under leaden skies like a deckload of depth charges exploding around a submarine, recalled to some old-timers early ...

    Schooner Days No. DCCXXIII Christmas Tree Ship By C.H.J. Snider We never had a Christmas tree fleet on Lake Ontario, though individual vessels sometimes came home in December with spruce or hemlock seized to the lanyards of the main shrouds, to show they had made a late trip and were going...

    Schooner Days No. DCCXXIV Messages From Christmas Tree Ship Come After Years By C.H.J. Snider "Little do you know, of the hardships, Nor do you understand The stormy nights we did endure On the lake of Michigan." -- Antelope chanty. Although the Coast Guard's searching ...

    Zero Hour on the McKinley Bill. Schooner Days DCLXXXVI By C.H.J. Snider Capt. John Williams, now of 50 Whitehall road, whose 88th birthday anniversary was celebrated so happily last week, was in the great grain rush of 1890, caused by the imminence of the McKinley tariff duties. He was ...

    Schooner Days No. DCLXXXV by C. H. J. Snider OBEY ORDERS IF YOU BUST OWNERS Evergreen Capt. W.D. Graham of St. Catharines was, in 1879, the young mate of the schooner Grantham of that port, described in last Saturday's Telegram. Sixty-six years later he sent us this hearty hail about her....

    Schooner Days by C. H. J. Snider Slow Ship's Long Wake It would be interesting indeed to find traces of the U.S. ship of war Oneida, however remote, for she was primagenetrix- if there such a word? - of the brief but brilliant generation of American sailing men-of-war on Lake Ontario a...

    Schooner Days No. CMLXII by C. H. J. Snider The Big Fisherman's Many a happy hour have I spent and many a good meal have I had in the forecastle of the great champion fishing schooner Blue Nose. The fisherman was of almost exactly the same overall length as our full canal sized lake ...

    Schooner Days No. CMLXIII WHATCHACALLIT? By C.H.J. Snider How to pronounce forecastle? Take a good look before you open your mouth. Once I took a university professor down into a lake schooner's, and after five minutes survey he pronounced the word distinctly thus: "I think if you don't ...

    SCHOONER DAYS CMLXXXV NEW YEAR PASSAGE Capt. Tom Donnelly , head of the Donnelly Wrecking Co. , and Capt. John Saunders , master mariner, jointly owned the white schooner Ella Murton in Kingston . They had a problem on their gnarled and knotted hands. In the last days of 1889 there...

    The Unheeded Bride By C.H.J. Snider Schooner Days No. MLIIVII Dr. & Mrs. Doupe of Mitchell Ont. Married on the first of November, were very much in love with one another three weeks later. If not quite wealthy they were rich in youth, health, hope and ambition, and still on their honeymoon,...

    Dream Came True Schooner Days No. MXC By C.H.J. Snider It will be remembered, perhaps, that poor young Mrs. Doupe, the doctor's bride, dreamed before the Waubuno sailed that they were all struggling in the water with a great weight pressing them down. That dream was talked of for a long...

    How The Wreck Came to Light Schooner days no. MXCI by C. H. J. Snider On March 30,1880, a party guided by an Indian named Pedonquot drove down the ice of the still frozen South Channel, and found what the Indian had reported in Parry Sound as the upside down bottom of a vessel. The winter's...

    PASSING HAILS ______ Barquentines and Topsail Schooners Sir, - I was pleased to read "Compiler of Schooner Days" reply to my letter in your issue re "the Rig of the Alembic" as he evidently is acquainted with the subject and I can therefore talk to him. My seven years' experience in deep ...