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Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 10 October 1906; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1886, 1895, 1910, 1912 and 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890, 1892 and 1897; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1892, 1897 and 1907; British Whig 14 August 1879, 8 November 1880, 9 May 1881, 30 March 1882,17 and 20 August and 22 December 1883 and 23 April 1885; Buffalo Commercial Advertiser 1 October 1873; Buffalo Enquirer 19 July 1892; Canadian Railway & Marine World April 1906; Kingston Daily News 5 December 1873, 29 June 1896; Montreal Herald 4 November 1889. 16 BRANDON schooner barge (C 92535). 1887-1888. 540.54 tons gross, 516.82 tons register, 167'. Launched at the Montreal Transportation Co. yard in Kingston on 22 June 1887 after two earlier unsuccessful attempts (she had only moved 20' the previous day). Round stern. Three masts. Reported to be worth $15,000-$20,000 new. This barge was lost in 600' of water SW of Isle Royale in Lake Superior on 1 October 1888 while on passage to Duluth Minnesota. She had a cargo of 1,100 tons of steel rails and it was speculated that she had been overloaded. John Gaskin said in a newspaper report that he did not think she was insured. Newspapers put the value of her cargo at $10,000. She had been in tow of the Montreal Transportation Co. tug WALKER together with the barges REGINA and JENNIE, had broken loose and become "waterlogged". Her registry was closed on 26 October 1888. Presumably named after the grain-shipping centre of Brandon Manitoba. Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; British Whig 22 May, 21 and 22 June 1887, 19 December 1887, 9 April and 2 and 5 October 1888; Marine Record 11 October 1888. 17 BRIGHTON steel schooner barge (C 103954). 1897-1920. 634 tons gross, 607 tons net, 179.6'. Capacity 40,000 bushels of wheat = 1,350 tons on 10.7' draft. Launched at Kingston in 1897 by the Canadian Locomotive and Engineering Co. Ltd. Steel frame, upper sides and deck. Planked below the water line. 1902 value $19,000. 1903 value $18,000. 1906 and 1908 value $17,000. 1912 value $18,400. 1914-15 insurance rating 90 restricted to the St. Lawrence River only. 1915 value $17,000. 1916 value $16,500. 1917 value $42,000. 1918 value $35,700. 1919 value $29,400. 1920 value $26,450. 1921 rated 90, shown on the company books as worth $36,000. This barge was a sister to COBOURG. BRIGHTON was hit by the steamer CUBA (C 71153, 647 tons) while anchored at night in Lac St. Francis on 12 November 1908. Her damage was slight. BRIGHTON's Montreal Transportation Co. companion DORCHESTER was also hit while another Montreal Transportation Co. barge, UNGAVA, and their tug GLIDE escaped 104