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26 TAE MarRINeE REVIEW CANADIAN SHIPPING NOTES The Wabigoon Steamboat Co. of Wabigoon, Ont., is hav- ing a steamer built on the lake by Cassey & Long Toledo, O. The Midland Queen was the first steamer reaching Port Arthur, Ont., this season. She was also first in 1904. Capt. W. A. Malloy, who for years was master of the City of Toronto, plying between Toronto and the Niagara river, and who recently carried on a summer hotel at Niagara-on- the-Lake, Ont., died there, April 27. The old steamer Jolin Instine, has been rebuilt and renamed the John Randall. She has been fitted with new compound engines; and is intended to run between Rideau canal points and Oswego, N. Y. The steamer Montcalm, having been freed from the ice, by the floating out of theice bridge at-Cape Rouge, Que., has taken up a station in the Straits of Belle Isle, in order to warn 4 The Niagara Navigation Co. has arranged to inaugurate a freight service on its line between Toronto and the Niagara river during the current season of navigation. W. E. Tibbetts, Toronto, has been appointed general freight agent. The steamers of the company will make close connection with the trains on both sides of the Niagara river. The St. Lawrence Floating & Wrecking Co. has been. in- corporated under the Dominion Companies' Act with a capital of $200,000 and offices at | Montreal, Que., to carry on a general salvage and wrecking business. J. W. ddarris, I. Lessard, contractors; F. X. Durand, shipper; P. G. Martineau, advocate, and Jos. Dacand bookkeeper, all of Montreal, are the pro- visional directors. i: Two companies have been registered under the Dominion Companies' Act with offices at New Glasgow, N. S33 as tol- lows: Wobun Steamship Co., capital $48,000; Wasis Steam- ' THE WHALEBACKS LVING AT THE PLANT OF THE GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING WORKS AWAITING REPAIRS. incoming steamers of the state of the ice. She will remain on duty there until the ice has entirely disappeared. The steamer Pierrepoint has been chartered by the depart- ment of Marine as a light house tender to temporarily replace the burned steamer Scout. The Scout has been raised and will be reconstructed. The cost of this work is at present es- timated at $50,000. The Dominion government has passed an order in council providing for reciprocity with the United States in regard to steamboat inspection. 'The secretary of commerce and labor will, in accordance with the powers vested in him, make a similar order in respect of Canadian vessels requiring United States inspection. E. J. Chamberlin, general manager Canadian Atlantic Ry., J. W. Smith, also with the C. A. Ry., are among the provis- ional directors of the Colonial Lumber Co., just incorporated at Ottawa with a capital of $100,000 to carry on in connection with a general lumber business a general navigation busi- ness. ship Co., capital $18,000. The directorate is the same in each case and includes G. Stairs, J. D. McGregor, J. C. McGregor, G. F. McKay and H. Graham, all associated with the Nova Scotia Steel Co. The two steamers named have been under charter to the Nova Scotia Steel Co. for its coal and iron ore trade. The question of the renewal of the subsidy to Pickford & Black of Halifax, N. S., for a steamship service between Halifax and West Indian Island ports, will shortly be con- sidered. The service is carried on by five steamers and the cost is $150,000 a year. The Elder Dempster Co. of Liverpool, Eng., which is at present operating a refrigerator fruit service between Jamaica and other West Indian Islands and Bristol, Eng., is applying for the contract, as also is Pickford & Black. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co.'s steamer Canada, which was sunk after collision with the Cape Breton and sub- sequently raised, has been rebuilt at the Davis shipyards, Quebec. She is now at the company's yards at Sorel, Que., being refitted.