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The Etowah from Liverpool despite having only light winds. After unloading part of her cargo at Montreal, Capt. Burke took over as Great Lakes pilot, and brought her to Hamilton. As a local reporter said "Our port presented a gay and animated appearance all day yesterday, in consequence of the arrival of the ETOWAH, the first of a line of traders from Liverpool. As she came to anchor off MacKay's Wharf, she was greeted by all the vessels in port hoisting their colours, which were flown all day." The ETOWAH was built in 1863 at Cleveland by Thomas Quayle and measured 137.1 x 25.2 x 12.1 with a registered tonnage of 321. She sailed on 8 September for Cleveland and Detroit, in which ports the remainder of her cargo would be unloaded. She would then proceed to Bruce Mines, to load copper ore for Europe. On the day before her departure from Hamilton, the Board of Trade entertained Capt. Wraight, his officers, Mr. Shaw, of Liverpool and the leaders of the local business community, including Aeneas MacKay, at a dinner in the Royal Hotel. Evidently, the success of this venture met the expectations of Messrs. Cunningham, Shaw & Co. and at the end of the year, they announced their intentions of placing three vessels in the service in 1865. Aeneas MacKay had obtained a cargo of flour for his schooner GARIBALDI and she sailed from the Great Western Railway Wharf, for Oswego, on the morning of the 7 April 1865. In so doing, she was the first vessel to leave port after the ice broke up. The first arrival was the schooner CHINA, which was towed in from Port Dalhousie by the tug -6-