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Listing of Sources The short bibliography at the end of each entry are subdivided in up to three subsections. Entries are alphabetical within these three sub-sections. Primary sources from Montreal Transportation Co. fonds in the archives of Queen's University and the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston are in the first subdivision. Books and online archives are second. Journals and newspapers, usually online in this list, are in the third subdivision. MONTREAL TRANSPORTATION CO. FLEET LIST Numbered vessels in the lists below are known to have been owned or operated by the Montreal Transportation Co. Vessels without a number were financially related to the Montreal Transportation Co. in some way but were not operated by them. STEAMSHIPS AND MOTOR VESSELS: 1 A. McVITTIE wooden steam barge ex package freighter (C 138491 ex U 106710). 1917-1919. Original as package freighter: 2,046.9 tons gross, 1,552.88 net. As a bulk carrier post 1912: 1,458.51 tons gross, 945.16 tons net, 240.25' (waterline?). Launched on 28 December 1890 by Detroit Dry Dock at Wyandotte Michigan. Yard #99. Diagonally strapped. Fore & aft compound engine = 825 indicated horsepower, 109 rated horsepower. Original cost $130,000. 1906 valued at $45,000. 1913 insurance rating = 90. 1914 insurance rating = 90/100 coarse freight only. 1917-18 value $60,000. 1919 value $54,000. McVITTIE's first owner was the Ogdensburg Transportation Co., the shipping arm of the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad, which was operated by the Central Vermont Railroad. The purpose of the shipping company was to bring western grain to Ogdensburg New York for eastward shipment by rail and to move manufactured goods and building stone west. McVITTIE was part of a fleet in these trades that included WILLIAM A. HASKELL (later Montreal Transportation Co.'s J0YLAND) and WILLIAM J. AVERELL (later Montreal Transportation Co.'s OATLAND). McVITTIE was repaired in 1893 after grounding on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan ($1,500 damage). On 5 May 1895, she went ashore in Hammond's Bay on Lake Huron while on passage Oswego New York - Chicago. The steamer was repaired at Milwaukee Wisconsin where she got 54 new frames, a new forefoot and some new bottom planking. In 1899 her ownership was transferred to Rutland Transit (Rutland Railroad, later part of the New York Central system) when it took control of the Central Vermont Railroad. In 1905-15, she was half owned by Rutland and half owned by the Ogdensburg Coal and Towing Co. 13