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Ship of the M o n t h - cont'd. most famous amusement parks. From 1886 until 1893, the Doty Brothers o p e r a ted the amusements, w hi ch incl ud ed numerous rides and other attractions, i n cluding the inevi ta bl e "museum of living cur iosities", or freak show. During the summer of 1897, the Dotys also m a n ag ed the Hotel Hanlan, w hi ch traced its begin ni ng s back to the 1860s, when it had been e s t a bl is he d by John H a n lan, who also served as the island constable. The big new Hotel Han lan was built in 1880 by John Ha nl a n ' s son Ned, the wor ld -f am ou s champion oarsman (who also had dabbled in the bo ot le gg in g business), and it was grea tly e x panded about 1895. As well as ru nn in g her usual service to the Island, C A N A D I A N was one of s e veral steamers which o p e ra te d to the Ca na d i a n Na ti ona l Exhibit ion from d ow nto wn To ro n t o during the fair's August run. We have an 1886 ticket issued by the " Ex hi bi ti on Park Ferry Line", G. L. Hicks, manager, the price of w hic h was ten cents. It was good for one passage from "City to Exhibi tio n Wharf and Return", on one of the "Steamers RUPERT, CANADIAN, GEN EVA and SADIE". Ca pt a i n Turner's name was not mentioned, but no doubt he was one of the p ri nc ip al s of this operation. Capt. Turner died early in 1887, and on Apr il 9th of that year, the Turner Estate sold out the ferry opera ti ons to the Doty Ferry Company. The princely sum of $ 1 4 , 600 was paid by the Dotys for Turne r's entire fleet, wh ich in cluded not only C A N A D I A N but also the big sin gl e- en de d sid ewh eel er SADIE, of wh ich we shall hear more later. Another of Turner's boats was the little steamer LUELLA, which was built in 1880 and would serve until 1934. On July 23, 1887, Thomas McLean, for the Regis tra r of Shipping for the Port of T o ronto, re c o r d e d that LUELLA'S 64 shares had been p u r ch as ed by John Doty, m a chinist, of Toronto, and we wou ld assume that John Dot y also became the reg is t e r e d owner of CANADIAN, as well as SADIE. (The re fe ren ce to John Doty as a m a ch in is t reminds us that his family also operated the Doty Engine C o m pany, w hi ch built engines for many lake s t e a m e r s . ) The Doty Brothers thus had come to cont rol not only the Ha nl an' s Point amusement park but also the ferries which the public w o u l d ride in order to reach the park's attractions. As well, the Dotys wo uld operate the carousel w hic h was set up in the new public park area at what later would be known as Centre Island. Island Park, as this new public area then was known, was a c tually opened in 1888 after seven years of mu nic ipa l re c o n s t r u c t i o n and la nds ca pi ng of "Mead's Island", where Mea d's (formerly Parkinson's) Hotel stood until 1887. Interestingly, however, the Doty Ferry C o m p a n y itself was not to enjoy a very long life. On Sept em be r 24, 1889, "The Toronto Globe" repo rte d that it was informed that E. B. Osler "in p a r t ne rs hi p with others" was ne go ti at in g for the pur ch as e of the Doty Ferry Company. On Fe br u a r y 27th, 1890, the Toronto Ferry Co mp an y Lim it ed was r e gi st er ed as a joint stock comp any with c a p i ta l i z a t i o n of $ 2 5 0 , 000. The direc tor s of the new com pan y were Edmund Boyd Osler, of Toronto (president); W i l l i a m Hendrie, of Ha mi lt on (vicepresident); F. W. Doty (brother of John), and He nry Be at ty (the famous o p e rator of upper lake p a s se ng er steamers, i n cl udi ng those of the C . P. R . ). As we never have seen the off ic ial re gi s t r a t i o n doc um en ts for CANADIAN, we cannot say exa ct ly when her o w ne rsh ip was tr an sf err ed to the new owner. The LUELLA, which again took the same route as CANADIAN, was reco rde d by the T o ronto Re g i s t r a r of Shi pp in g as being tra nsf er re d on Ja n u a r y 3, 1890, to W i l liam Hen dr ie and E. B. Osler, and then on Ma y 3rd, 1890, to the Toro nto F e r ry Com p a n y Limited. We w ou ld imagine that similar entr ies would have been made for all of the boats wh ic h made the move from the Doty Ferry Com pa ny to the new firm. CA NA DI AN and SADIE wo ul d have been the largest and best of the ferries which began service for the To ro nt o Ferry C o mp an y in 1890, but it wo ul d not be thus for long. Even before the formal i n c o r po ra ti on of the new company, its p rin cip al s placed orders for two 140-foot, steel-hulled, d o ub le -e nd ed ferry