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Calnan, Joe, The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (St. John's, NL), Jul 2013, 213-238     The French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) had a small rigged sailing coaster built in 1679 to travel between the Niagara River and Lake Michigan. La Salle hired a qualified and experienced pilot to conduct the vessel on these waters, but within nine months of starting on the ...

   

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. The GRIFFIN on the Stocks After Hennepin's Sketch. The smithy is seen on the extreme left. The Dutch galleot model of hull is most noticeable.

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 28 Apr 1934     Another "Griffon" Bites the Dust Schooner Days CXXXVI (136) It looks as though the wreck discovered at Birch Island, Lake Huron, an outlier of the Les Cheneaux group, cannot be the long lost barque Griffon. The Griffon, as we have been often ...

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 5 Jun 1948     Erie's 'North Foreland' a Menace Since 1679 Schooner Days DCCCL (850) by C. H. J. Snider EVERY vessel bound down from lakehead to tidewater, every ship climbing the stairs of the ...

Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram (Toronto, ON), 2 Jan 1937     Catching a Ketch Schooner Days CCLXXIII (273) SEVERAL kind readers of Schooner Days have telephoned and written about the English ketch Ceres, whose demise in her hundred and twenty-fifth year had been recorded in The ...