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She is believed to have been the last hull that Louis Shickluna laid down before his death. Sir Leonard Tilley, from New Brunswick, was the Dominion finance minister. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1905, 1908, 1910 and 1912-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 19 January and 15 March 1905, 10 August 1918 and 11 November 1921; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineer's Log Advance 25 April 1918-29 August 1918, 19 April 1919-9 December 1919; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 28 Sept-6 Dec 1905, 21 April-24 May 1906, 10 Aug-29 Oct 1916, 12 May-24 November 1917; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Letter Book Sept 1916; Montreal Transportation Co. Ships' Logs Advance 25 April 1918-2 December 1918 and Glide 2 May-15 Dec 1919; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Brookes Hamilton Harbour 1826-1901; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1913, 1914 and 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Canada List of Shipping 1905, 1915 and 1918; Gillham Ships In Trouble 1880-1950; Greenwood Namesakes 1930-1955; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1892 and 1897; Lloyd's Register 1900, 1905, 1918 and 1921; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1897, 1923 and 1925; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Buffalo Commercial Advertiser 30 June 1884; Buffalo Evening News 19 August 1909; Canadian Railway & Marine World April and October 1907; Detroit Free Press 1 September 1900; Detroit Marine Historian June 1977; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes vertical files; Marine Review 30 December 1897; Scanner #36; Schell "Canada Steamship Lines" Belgian Shiplover 2/73; 4 ALERT ex CHIPPEWA wooden canal tug (C 90699). 1917-1921. 47 tons gross, 32 net, 58.4' (registered). Built 1886 by William Ross & Sons at Port Robinson on the Welland Canal. Her machinery, which had been removed from another vessel, developed 28 rated horsepower. 1890 value $6,000, rated A1½. 1917-18 value $7,500. 1919 value $6,562.50, restricted to the Welland Canal and Lake Erie. 1920 value $5,906.25. CHIPPEWA had been renamed by 1895. Montreal Transportation Co. bought ALERT from her original owner, the Welland Canal Tug Co. (F.W. Carter and family). Montreal Transportation Co. resold her to the Harrigan Tug Line for $15,000 in 1921 as part of a package with the tugs ESCORT and P.B. McNAUGHTON. By 1924, her owner was E.O. Leahey of Niagara Falls Ontario. In 1926 she sank in the Niagara River near Chippewa Ontario and was removed from the register on 31 December 1937. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1918-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 3 May 1917 and 11 January 1921; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Beeson's Marine Directory 1917; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Canada List of Shipping 1910, 1918, 1924 and 1929; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890; Mercantile Navy List 1897, 1923 and 1925; New Mills List; Kingston Daily News 7 May 1874; Watertown Herald 12 May 1917. 5 ARABIAN composite package freighter (C 100394). 1917-1921. Original as steamer: 1,073 tons gross, 770 net, 178.6' (between perpendiculars). 17