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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 31 No. 3 November 1977 Rev. Peter J. Van der Linden, Editor, 4190 Green Dr., Harsens Island, Michigan 48028 Published Monthly Annual Dues $5.00 ST. LAWRENCE & CHICAGO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. by Rev. E. J. Dowling, S.J. JAMES CARRUTHERS before launch Ed. Collection This Toronto steamship line operated steel canallers and upper lakes bulk freight- ers from the middle Nineties until 1916. The firm of Hagarty and Crangle, Toronto is listed as managers in the early years. There is reason to believe that this company had its beginnings back in the Seventies as the St. Lawrence and Chicago Forwarding Co., Ltd., a barging operation on the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. The Twentieth Century fleet of St. Lawrence and Chicago Steam Navigation Company consisted of four canallers and four larger bulk freighters. These vessels had black hulls, white houses and black stacks with an orange-red diamond on the sides. The fleet became part of Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd., in 1916. (Continued on p. 2)