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Montreal Transportation Co. also had a steam barge with this name 18851903. Montreal Transportation Co.'s founding McLennan brothers grew up in Glengarry County, Canada West. J. Gaskin Letter Book 1884-86; Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1902, 1908, 1910 and 1912; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Marine Register 1874; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1895, 1910 and 1912; 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; Kohl Kingston's Shipwrecks; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; Moore Kingston Inner Harbour Survey; British Whig 16 June 1881, 26 July 1884, 5 April, 25 June and 24 July 1886; Kingston Daily News 21 September 1872, 19 June 1873 and 7 May 1874, 8 June, 3 July and 5 October 1876; Marine Record 8 July 1886 and 7 April 1887; Marine Review 24 March 1898. GLENORA see HECTOR GODFREY see JEREMIAH GODFREY GRANT see MARY ANNE GRANT 59 HAMILTON steel barge (C 111661). 1901-1921. Original: 996 tons gross, 970 tons register, 202.12'. Capacity 65,000 bushels of wheat = 1,920 tons. After rebuild as steamer: 1,614 tons gross, 928 net, 250.1' (257' overall). Twin triple expansion engines = 115 nominal horsepower. Built by Hamilton Bridge & Iron Works and launched on 21 September 1901. Yard #4. Oak planked below waterline, otherwise built of steel. Steam steering, winches and pumps. No masts. As a barge, at least after rebuild, she had a small pilot house on a raised fo'c'stle. As a steamer she had a larger pilot house that was immediately aft of the fo'c'stle. 1903 value $41,500. 1906 value $40,000. 1907 value $38,000 and rated A1½. 1908-10 value $39,000. 1912 value $38,000. 1913 value $37,000. 1914-16 value $36,000 ($1,100 in improvements 1916). 1914-15 insurance rating = 95/100. 1917 value $70,000. 1918 value $59,500. 1919 value $49,000. 1920 value $44,100. 1921 was on the company books for $76,000 and had an insurance rating of 95/100. Originally a sister to the barge QUEBEC (2), HAMILTON was lengthened 2.5' and widened 1' during reconstruction at Bertram Iron Works in Toronto in 1905. She was chartered to the Pentecost Lumber Company in 1905. Repaired in 1916. On 5 October 1918, en route from Port Colborne Ontario to Montreal, with 65,000 bushels of wheat, she ran aground on the Point Peninsula. She was being towed by the Montreal Transportation Co. steamer JOYLAND. After her cargo was discharged at Port Colborne she was dry docked at Buffalo. Her ownership was transferred to Canada Steamship Lines in 1921 as part of the final winding up of the Montreal Transportation Co. fleet 132