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Canada Steamship Lines fonds Queen's University Archives items 1004, 116 and 117; Canada Steamship Lines Organizational Chart 1922; Desloges and Gelly, Lachine Canal, Riding the Waves of Industrial and Urban Development 1860-1950 (2002); Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1916; Salmon, "A Prosperous Season, Investments in Canadian Great Lakes Shipping 1900-1914" (in Brehm, A Fully Accredited Ocean, Essays on the Great Lakes (1998)); British Whig 21 December, 1882; Canadian Railway & Marine World January, June and August 1917, March, April and June 1919, July 1920, October 1924 and June 1925; Kingston Daily News 25 March, 1868. Notes on the Detailed Listing of Vessels: Definitions Barge Usually a flat-bottomed, shallow draft vessel without her own mechanical propulsion. In North American terms, barges are normally intended to be towed or pushed although there were many sailing barges on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. They had more "ship like" hulls. This list treats "barge", and "lighter" as interchangeable terms. "Consort barges" were large vessels intended to be towed by freighters on the lakes. Some vessels later classed as "barges" or "consort barges" were originally built as rigged sailing vessels and had deeper hulls. Barge Rigging/Masts Generally, river barges may have had masts and even spars, but they did not usually have sails. Lake barges almost invariably had masts and usually had spars and sails as built. The rig often changed over the course of a barge's life. Barge Tows Especially in the early years, forwarding companies sometimes had their barges towed by tugs chartered from other owners, used the Government Tug Line between Kingston and Montreal (run with vessels chartered from the Calvin fleet), or included their barges in the tows of competitors. Montreal Transportation Co. usually used their own tugs to tow barges that they owned, but their tows occasionally included barges that they had chartered or that belonged to competitors. Bulk Freight Cargoes such as grain, salt, coal, limestone, pulpwood, potash and other minerals and agricultural products that were handled in bulk as opposed to in pieces or packages. A limited amount of general freight was sometimes a cargo for barges upbound from Montreal. Coarse freight only An insurance rating for vessels restricted to rough bulk cargoes such as limestone, potash, ore, railway ties, salt, cement, fence posts, pulpwood, coal and others that did not require a clean hold. These cargoes were usually carried by older vessels. 9