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Montreal Transportation Co. usually ran UNGAVA between Prescott Ontario and Montreal. In 1915 they received an offer to buy her for $55,000. Instead, she was chartered to Dominion Coal for the Sydney Nova Scotia - St. Lawrence traffic in 1915 @ $3,000 per month. It was agreed that she could trade as far as Saint John New Brunswick for $500 per month more. She was damaged by a coal gas explosion and fire at a Sydney Nova Scotia pier on 22 June 1915. Repaired, she was sold French (French National Railway owners, Soc. Maritime Nationale managers) on 21 August 1917 for $190,000 and was removed from Canadian registry on 8 September 1917. The French renamed her SEGRE. She disappeared at sea in November 1921. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1905, 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1913-18; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 18 February, 17 May and 21 July 1915 and 21 August and 9 October1917; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 29 November 1912-8 Oct 1914, 10 July29 Oct 1916; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914 and 1915; Canada Annual Report of Department of Marine and Fisheries 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Gillham Ships In Trouble 18801950; Gillham Ships of Collingwood; Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1916; Greenwood Namesakes 1910-1919; Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1921-22; Canadian Railway & Marine World March, August and September 1906; Detroit Marine Historian January 1953. UNION see L'UNION 127 UTILITY river barge. 1869-1874. 217 tons register, 107.2'. Capacity 12,500 bushels. Built in Quebec City by Thomas C. Lee (Marcil said by Davidson and Goudie) in 1854. Two masts. Round stern. 1863 rated 2 and valued at $3,500. 1866 rated 2 and valued at $2,500. 1874 rated 2 out of a possible 3 and valued at $1,800. UTILITY's first owners were Walker & Berry of Kingston Canada West. She was rebuilt by F. Jobin at Berry's shipyard at Portsmouth in Canada West in 1862. She was wrecked in the Long Sault of the St. Lawrence River in September 1867 while under tow of the tug ADVANCE (possibly the one built at Bedford Mills Canada West in 1860) but was salved. In 1878 she was owned by the St. Lawrence & Chicago Forwarding Co. and presumably went to Montreal Transportation Co. in 1883 along with the rest of the St. Lawrence and Chicago Forwarding Co. fleet. She was removed from the register on 19 February 1895 as she had been "broken up some years ago". Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Marine Register 1874; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1866; Board of Lake Underwriters (Buffalo) Marine Register 1863; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Marcil Charley-Man; Mercantile Navy List 1889 and 1892; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; British Whig "Spring Walks No 1" 22 March 1862; Kingston Daily News 11 September 1867, 20 August and 19 December 1869, 19 December 1870, 15 August 1871 and 27 May and 27 October 1873, 8 August 1872. 182