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Repair Co. In 1919 he bought AUGUSTUS and ten smaller Montreal Transportation Co. barges (CONDOR, DAKOTA, DORCHESTER, DUNMORE, KINGSTON, LAPWING, MUSKOKA, SELKIRK, VALENCIA and WINNIPEG). Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1906, 1908, 1910, 1911 and 1913-19; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 14 January 1919; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineer's Log Mary P. Hall; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 21 April-24 May 1906, 29 November 1912-8 Oct 1914, 22 April-31 Oct 1914, 10 July-29 Oct 1916, 20 July-18 November 1917, 30 Aug-16 November 1917; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Letter Book Sept 1916; Montreal Transportation Co. Ship's Log Mary 4 May 1917-8 Oct 1918; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919 and 1921; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914; Canada List of Shipping 1895 and 1910; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1920; 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, 1919, 1921, 1923 and 1925; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; Swainson A Shipping Empire: Garden Island; British Whig 23 June and 15 July 1886 and 27 June 1887; Buffalo Enquirer 19 and 22 July 1892; Canadian Railway & Marine World April 1906; Detroit Marine Historian February 1952; Kingston Daily News 24 June 1885; Marine Record 9 July 1885; Montreal Herald 4 November 1889. 43 DALHOUSIE river barge (C 71602). 1874-1897. 330 tons new measurement, 245.69 tons register, 136.0'. Capacity 18,000 bushels. Built at Montreal by George Drolet in 1874. No masts. Round stern. 1878 rated 1 out of a possible 3 and valued at $7,000. 1884 rated A2. 1890 rated 00 (uninsurable). DALHOUSIE was damaged when the steamer BOHEMIAN (1,139 tons register) struck the gate of Lock #2 in the Lachine Canal in 1880. She was hauled out at Kingston for repairs and was repaired again in 1883. Condemned in 1886, she was repaired yet again in 1887. Eventually broken up. Her registry was closed on 27 April 1899. She was presumably named for the Welland Canal town of Port Dalhousie on Lake Ontario that had a transshipment elevator that was connected by rail to the elevators at Port Colborne Ontario on Lake Erie. J. Gaskin Letter Book 1884-86; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877 and 1895; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1892 and 1897; British Whig 7 May 1881, 12 July 1880, 1 April 1887; Kingston Daily News 7 and 13 May 1874 and 28 September 1876; Marine Record 7 April 1887. 44 DAUNTLESS river barge. 1872-1884. 242 tons gross, 188.15 "unit tons". 111.7'. Capacity 13,500 bushels. Built at Montreal by A. Cantin and launched on 26 September 1853. No masts. Round stern. 1863 rated 2 and valued at $3,500. 1864 rated B (third) class and valued at $3,000. 1866 rated 2 and valued at $2,000. 1874 rated 3 out of a possible 3 and valued at $800. 1878 121