Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Montreal Transportation Co., 1868-1921, p. 137

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All the barges of the Prescott Elevator Company carried the first names of women. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1913-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 10 April 1906 and 11 November 1921; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineers' R.G.A. Weaver 1 May-14 Oct 1917, India, John C. Mann and Mary P. Hall; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 19 July-22 November 1905, 21 April-24 May 1906, 22 April-28 May 1906, 29 November 1912-8 Oct 1914, 8 Oct-22 November 1915, 20 July-18 November 1917, 6 May-15 November 1918; Montreal Transportation Co. Ships' Logs Mary May 1918, Mary P. Hall 3 June 1918-30 November 1918, P.B. McNaughton May-Sept 1918 and D.G. Thomson 30 Aug14 Dec 1919; 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; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914 and 1915; Canada List of Shipping 1910, 1918 and 1929; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1916; Kohl Kingston's Shipwrecks; Mercantile Navy List 1904 and 1907; Canadian Railway & Shipping World August 1898 and November 1919; Collingwood Bulletin 2 January 1919; Detroit Marine Historian April 1952. 64 HURON river barge (C 80873). 1906-12. 494.91 tons gross, 474.91 tons register, 160.4'. Capacity 36,000 bushels or 800 tons of coal at a 9' draft. Built by Henry Roney at Garden Island Ontario in 1881. Rigged at first, then no masts. 1884 was rigged again. Round stern. Cost $15,000. 1884 rated A1. 1897 rated B1 and valued at $5,500 (required repairs). 1906 value $2,000. 1908 value $5,500. 1910 value $5,000. 1892 required repairs. The Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co. was HURON's original owner. They had her repaired and caulked in 1894. She foundered in the Cornwall Canal in 1889 but was salved. She came to Montreal Transportation Co. when they took over Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co. She, and Montreal Transportation Co.'s barge REGINA, were damaged in 1907 when the canaller NEEPEWAH (C 102579, 1,799 tons gross) broke the gate of Lock #1 in the Lachine Canal. HURON sustained $5,000 damage. She sank after a collision with the barge A.D. (C 107406, 462 tons register) of the Quebec Transportation Co. (Hackett) near Iroquois Ontario on 31 August 1912 and was declared a total loss, valued at $5,000. She had 28,000 bushels of grain on board from Richardson's. QTC took Montreal Transportation Co. to court but lost after it dragged on for several years. HURON was one of a series of barges built on Garden Island that had Iroquoian names. Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Annual Reports 1906, 1908 and 1910; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 26 June and 12 December 1907 and 12 September 1912; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston grain ledger 21 April-24 May 1906; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Canada List of Shipping 1895, 1910 and 1912; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great 137

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