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December 1872 - April 1873. Her owners then were Roberts & Williams of Chatham Ontario (also reported as Prentice Roberts & Co. of Montreal). BRUNO was under charter to the Dominion Government for lighthouse supply in 1873. She went ashore on Grosse Isle in the Detroit River in July that year but was pulled off. During 1874-75, she ran in the "Western Express" Line from Montreal to Chicago and got herself aground in the Detroit River again. She was repaired in 1875. She was for sale at Chatham in November 1875 and was damaged by a fire in her hold there on 4/5 May 1876. In 1877, she was owned by Sylvester Hadley, a lumberman, of Chatham. She was partly burned in a second fire at Chatham in May 1878 and was laid up until rebuilt as a steam barge and re-engined by Simpson at St. Catharines for $20,000 in 1880-81. In 1880-81, she was owned by J. & J.T. Matthews and was one of the first ships of what later became the large Matthews Steamship Co. line. She took a load of explosives upbound through the Welland Canal in September 1881. Her next owner is sometimes listed as G.P. Magann in 1886 or earlier but 1888 newspaper reports of the loss of a consort (see below) continued to attribute ownership of BRUNO and both her consorts to Matthews. On 8 July 1887, she was reported to be in dock at Port Dalhousie for repairs. BRUNO was on the rocks of Thunder Bay Island in November 1887. She got off by jettisoning 1,000 bushels of her cargo. At that time she had two consorts MAGGIE McRAE (C 90697, 329.32 tons gross as barge) and LAURA (348 tons gross as schooner) that she usually towed on her voyages. She lost MAGGIE McRAE when the barge's bows were stove in by thick ice 10 miles down the lake after leaving Port Arthur Ontario in 1888. The barge took an hour to sink so that her crew of seven were all saved. BRUNO was sold to Capt. Peters of Toronto in 1889. She was wrecked on Magnetic Reef between Cockburn and Manitoulin Islands on 6 November 1890. All on board were saved. Her consort LAURA was also lost. They had been carrying coal from Cleveland to Algoma Mills Ontario. Mrs. John Ogilvie (Ogilvie Flour) did the honours at this vessel's launch. The firm's mills were at Montreal and they bought large quantities of western grain that needed transportation. Note that Montreal Transportation Co. also had a barge of this name at the same time as they owned this steamer. Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1866, 1869 and 1873 (title varies); Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Canada List of Shipping 1877; Canada Report of Steamboat Inspection 1871; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register 1890; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1882; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; New Mills List; British Whig 6 November 1868, 10 and 25