Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Thompson's Coast Pilot for the Upper Lakes, on Both Shores, from Chicago to Buffalo, Green Bay, Georgian Bay and Lake Superior ... [5th ed.], p. 107

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Ree THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 107 Oakville (Ontario) light, fixed, visible 10 miles, on the east pier, at the entrance to the harbor, 66 feet high. Port Credit (Ontario) light, fixed, visible 10 miles, on the east plier, at the entrance to the River Credit. This port resembles Oakville, and is 12 miles SWbyW from Toronto, and 10 miles from Oakville. : TORONTO HARBOR, ONTARIO. This spacious bay is one of the best harbors on Lake Onta- rio. It is nearly circular, and formed by the mainland on the north, and along low narrow spit of, land on the east, south and southwest, called the Peninsula orIsland. It extends in a southwesterly direction from the highlands, in the township of Scarboro', upon which trees of stunted growth are thickly scat- tered. Thus is inclosed a beautiful basin, about 23 miles in diameter, capable of containing a large fleet of vessels. Gibraltar Point light, fixed, visible 14 miles, on Gibraltar Point, at the SW point of the Peninsula. Two range lights on the Queen's Dock, the north one red and the south one white. They bear NbyW from Gibraltar Point Lighthouse. : To run into Toronto Bay, give Gibraltar Lighthouse a berth of 1 mile, and run in north for the harbor lights, which keep in range until well up to the wharf; then follow the buoys round, leaving them on the starboard hand, two red buoys to the west- ward, and two white buoys to the eastward; thence straight up the bay, in line with the wharfs, or come to in any part of the bay, in 18 to 22 feet water. The depth of water between the piers and the buoys is Il to 12 feet, and is being deepened every year. A sandy shoal stretches into the lake a quarter of a mile, inaSW direction off Gibraltar Point, and continues along the west side of the island, to the entrance of the bay, due north, to the buoys, at an average distance of a quarter of a mile from the island; with 5 to 6 feet water on it, and at the point drops off suddenly to 12 and 20 feet. | Danerer.--There is a large boulder stone, in 5 feet water, nearly midway between the Queen's and Garrison wharfs, and a little to the south of them. To make lee under the island, come to in from 5 to 6 fathoms.

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