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- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Apr 1933 Dalhousie to Dublin Schooner Days LXXXV (85) Resuming the history of the Muir Brothers, whose famous drydock at Port Dalhousie, built in 1850, is still a going concern, we come to their "barque" Niagara, a lake pitcher which went once too often to the well of the ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 29 Apr 1933 Dalhousie to Dublin Schooner Days LXXXV (85) Resuming the history of the ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jan 1934 Nightmare - Come True Schooner Days CXXIII (123) FIFTY YEARS AGO come next July I did the hardest work I have ever done. That was hoping to raise the James R. Benson. She was a big topsail schooner of the old Welland Canal type, with three ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jan 1934 Nightmare - Come True Schooner Days CXXIII (123) FIFTY YEARS AGO come ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Jul 1934 When the "Jessie Breck" Rolled Over Schooner Days CXLIX (149) MRS. THOMAS MACKIE, young wife of the new captain of the lofty Kingston timber drogher Jessie Breck, left her father's home on Plum street in the Limestone City with a light heart on ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Jul 1934 When the "Jessie Breck" Rolled Over Schooner Days CXLIX (149) MRS. THOMAS ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Aug 1934 "Garden Island" -- Depression Cure Schooner Days CLII (152) NOT long ago, talking of the loss of the Jessie Breck when bound for Garden Island, something was promised about the barque of that name--not the Jessie Breck's, the island's--launched at that ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 18 Aug 1934 "Garden Island" -- Depression Cure Schooner Days CLII (152) NOT long ago, ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jul 1935 Mid Rebels and Indians Pioneer Tar Plied Trade Schooner Days CXCVIII (198) ___ Further Adventures of Alexander Muir, Drydock Founder, When He Sailed a Century Ago to Take Indian Presents Out and Bring ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 27 Jul 1935 Mid Rebels and Indians Pioneer Tar Plied Trade Schooner Days CXCVIII (198) ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 10 Aug 1935 Pioneer Tar Tells Why He Went "On the Waggon" Schooner Days CC (200) ___ Founder of Port Dalhousie's first drydock, still going strong, continues record of his climb from cabin boy to captain.--The ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 10 Aug 1935 Pioneer Tar Tells Why He Went "On the Waggon" Schooner Days CC ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Aug 1935 Two Sheep for $1 Beef Cent Per Lb. Cabbages 1c each Schooner Days CCI (201) ___ If they did not live well in the early timber trade it was not because of high prices - More adventures of a Master ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 17 Aug 1935 Two Sheep for $1 Beef Cent Per Lb. Cabbages 1c each Schooner ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Aug 1935 Actually preceded no. CCII (202) because it was mis-numbered.Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 24 Aug 1935 Actually preceded no. CCII (202) because it was mis-numbered.
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Aug 1935 Aboard a Pollywog Schooner Days CCIV (204) ___ Two Smokestacks, Two Boilers, No Steamgauge, No Watergauge, And No Rubber Gaskets -- Alexander Muir Describes Steam Conditions More Primitive Than Sailing ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Aug 1935 Aboard a Pollywog Schooner Days CCIV (204) ___ Two Smokestacks, Two Boilers, ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 Apr 1938 When the Calvin Fleet Came Here in the Spring Schooner Days CCCXXXIX (339) ONE of the mysteries of our boyhood along the waterfront was why the Calvin steam barges were always painted green and white, while their tows ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 Apr 1938 When the Calvin Fleet Came Here in the Spring Schooner Days CCCXXXIX ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 13 May 1939 Rafting Out Off Port Britain And 'The Island' 80 Years Ago Schooner Days CCCXCVII (397) by C. H. J. Snider PORT BRITAIN'S claim to be a port and a harbor, and not merely a name like ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 13 May 1939 Rafting Out Off Port Britain And 'The Island' 80 Years Ago Schooner ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Oct 1942 Cruise of a Jug Schooner Days DLXI (561) by C. H. J. Snider "ANCIENT LIGHTS" ALONG THE OLD ONTARIO SHORE "TALKING of timber ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 31 Oct 1942 Cruise of a Jug Schooner Days DLXI (561) by C. H. J. ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 28 Jul 1945 Garden Island Yields Treasure Long Ship of the Saga Schooner Days DCCII (702) by C. H. J. Snider IN a saga of the St. Lawrence (Ryerson Press) D. D. Calvin, Garden ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 28 Jul 1945 Garden Island Yields Treasure Long Ship of the Saga Schooner Days DCCII ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Aug 1945 SIDE WHEELERS AND "PROPS" Schooner Days DCCII (703) by C. H. J. Snider Had large place in building the Island Empire described in "A Saga of the St. ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 4 Aug 1945 SIDE WHEELERS AND "PROPS" Schooner Days DCCII (703) by C. H. J. ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Aug 1945 Sailing Fleet of the Calvin Firm Schooner Days DCCIV (704) by C. H. J. Snider EVEN past the end of last century the green bluff-bowed Steambarge D. D. Calvin would appear ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 11 Aug 1945 Sailing Fleet of the Calvin Firm Schooner Days DCCIV (704) by C. ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 18 Aug 1945 "Rule Brittania!" Schooner Days DCCV (705) by C. H. J. Snider Park Whistler of Niagara Flls gives good guess at Mystery Ship - Old Timberman left clue to her ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 18 Aug 1945 "Rule Brittania!" Schooner Days DCCV (705) by C. H. J. Snider Park ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Aug 1945 Timber Droghing Rough and Tough Schooner Days DCCVI (706) by C. H. J. Snider Old Timer tells of many narrow escapes when he strode the deckload and the horses ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 25 Aug 1945 Timber Droghing Rough and Tough Schooner Days DCCVI (706) by C. H. ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 1 Sep 1945 Why the Topmasts Were Sent Down Schooner Days DCCVII (707) by C. H. J. Snider SCHOONERS continued to have their uses on Lake Ontario for forty years after the barge era began to ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 1 Sep 1945 Why the Topmasts Were Sent Down Schooner Days DCCVII (707) by C. ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Sep 1945 Drum Led to Launching in the Old Days Schooner Days DCCVIII (708) by C. H. J. Snider Garden Island Timber Fleet covered most of Europe with their ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 8 Sep 1945 Drum Led to Launching in the Old Days Schooner Days DCCVIII (708) ...
- Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Jun 1946 The Albatross Timber Drogher Schooner Days DCCXLIX (749) by C. H. J. Snider Floating Stable for Horseboy and His Horses Yielded Her Captain Less Than $500 a ...Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 22 Jun 1946 The Albatross Timber Drogher Schooner Days DCCXLIX (749) by C. H. J. ...
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