Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Long Sault Rapids, St. Lawrence River, Canada

Description
Creator
Notman, Photographer
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Postcards
Description
Patriotic coloured postcard of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company steamboat ALGERIAN in the Long Sault Rapids. One of a series of four Notman photographs of this passage.
Notes
The ALGERIAN was a rebuilt in 1874 of the BAVARIAN (1873), in turn a rebuild of the KINGSTON (1855). She was renamed CORNWALL in 1904. Postcard has divided back. Postmarked Montreal, QU 13 Aug 1925. The original image probably dates from the 1880s.
Inscriptions
"Long Sault Rapids, St. Lawrence River, Canada"
Reverse: "Novelty Mfg. & Art Co. Ltd. Montreal"
"Long Sault Rapids nine miles in length the rapids of the Long Sault are the most considerable of all of the graduated waterfalls of the St. Lawrence."
Publisher
Novelty Mfg. & Art Co. Ltd.
Place of Publication
Montreal
Date of Original
c1907
Date Of Event
c1885
Dimensions
Width: 13.9 cm
Height: 8.7 cm
Subject(s)
Rapids
Steamboats
Algerian (steamboat)
Local identifier
238
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
Copyright Statement
Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
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Long Sault Rapids, St. Lawrence River, Canada


Patriotic coloured postcard of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company steamboat ALGERIAN in the Long Sault Rapids. One of a series of four Notman photographs of this passage.