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Acadia (Ontario Archives collection) 3:30 p. m., the composite-hulled propeller ACADIA was successfully launched from the shipyard alongside Zealand's Wharf, amid the cheers of crowds of people who jammed the wharves and the bluff along the shore. The ACADIA was Christened by Mrs. Elizabeth MacKay, under the watchful and, no doubt, apprehensive eyes of Capt.n John Malcolmson, owner. Capt. John was also the builder of this vessel, having served his time in various shipyards, as a ship-carpenter, before becoming a deck officer. He was, in all probability assisted in his labours by A. M. Robertson, who operated the shipyard until his death in 1892. The ACADIA measured 135.8 x 24.6 x 7.0; with a gross tonnage of 439; net 364. Her low-pressure engine, 32 x 32, was supplied by F. G. Beckett & Co., of Hamilton. Her return-tube boiler was 17 feet long and 8 feet in diameter. The shafts, engine frame and bed, as well as the iron for the boiler were imported from England. All the vessel's framing, hold stanchions and hatch coamings were iron. On Friday night, 3 May, the schooner QUEEN OF THE LAKES, owned by John Riley, of St. Catharines, bound for Hamilton, with 400 tons of coal for Aeneas MacKay, went ashore on the Beach, 2 miles south of the Canal. She was abandoned to the underwriters and a week later Mr. Tallman, of Hamilton, had his salvage gear aboard. Most of the coal was lost. -10-