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Board of Lake Underwriters (Buffalo) Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1895 and 1910; 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 1897, 1904 and 1907; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; British Whig 2 November 1887; Kingston Daily News 14 May 1874, 10 and 18 November 1875, 3 August 1876 and 1 June 1877, Marine Record 7 April 1887; Marine Review 24 March 1898. 32 CONDOR composite lake barge at first, then later was a river barge (C 92553). 1906-1919. 566.69 tons gross, 549 net tons. 180.7' (Bascom and Gillham said 192.5' that might have been overall). Capacity 40,000 bushels. Launched on Wednesday 1 August 1888 by A. Cantin at Montreal. She was his 188th vessel. Three masts were fitted during the winter of 1888-89 "for service on Lake Superior" but she shows in a postcard marked 1911 with no masts. Round stern. Cost $20,000. 1890 valued at $22,000 and classed A1. 1892 valued at $20,000 and rated A1½. 1897 insurance rating A2, valued at $12,500 and required repairs. 1906 value $4,000. 1908-10 value $5,000. 1912 value $4,500. 1913 value $4,000. 1914 value $3,500. 1914 insurance rating = 90 restricted to the St. Lawrence River. 1915 value $7,500. 1916 value $7,000. 1917 value $10,000. 1918 value $8,500. 1919 value $7,000 and restricted to Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. 1921 rated 90. CONDOR was the largest barge on the upper St. Lawrence when built for the Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co. She foundered in the Galops Rapids of the St. Lawrence River on 22 October 1889 while being towed by Calvin's paddle tug HIRAM A. CALVIN (109 tons register). CONDOR had 60,000 bushels of corn on board. She was lightered [see definitions], pulled off and repaired. She came to Montreal Transportation Co. when they took over Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co. in 1906. She was rebuilt in 1915 and was aground (with Montreal Transportation Co.'s barge WINNIPEG) near Bill Johnson's Light in the St. Lawrence in May 1917. CONDOR was sold "as is" to A.A. Larocque as part of a $75,000 package in 1919 along with nine other barges. Her 1920 owner was the Atlas Sand Co. (Atlas Transportation). She was wrecked on the beach west of Poplar Bar on the south side of Point Traverse in Prince Edward County Ontario on 17 August 1921 when her owner was Sincennes-McNaughton. She was carrying coal to Montreal at the time while under tow by the tug MACSINCO (C 138508, 140 tons gross) along with the barge ATLASCO ex Russell Sage (C 138234, 788 tons register, owned by Sincennes-McNaughton and their subsidiary Atlas Sand) which also sank. CONDOR's registry was closed on 22 August 1921. Alphonse Arsene Larocque (1865-1936) was managing director of SincennesMcNaughton tugs. He bought control of the firm in 1917. SincennesMcNaughton owned Consolidated Sand Co., Touzin Sand and Atlas Transportation as well as other companies. Larocque became a director of the 114