Category: History - Other
Since ever the changes of season have come, when grasses grow green, and open waters flow, the courses of the Niagara River, above and below the great Falls, have been the central route, for voyaging between the far inland countries on this continent, and the waters of the Atl...
During this season the first "Niagara Camp" was held. On the 5th of June, the _Chicora_ took over on the morning trip the Toronto Field Battery, Mayor Gray, Lieut. Beatty, Surge...
9. CHAPTER IX.A complimentary excursion to Niagara, leaving at 2.30 p.m., was given by the company on May 10th to a large list of guests, an introduction of the steamer which was much appreci...
8. CHAPTER VIII.On the south side of Lake Ontario, opposite Toronto, is the Niagara Portal, where the mouth of the Niagara River, with high banks on either hand, makes its entrance into the lak...
15. CHAPTER XV.No wonder that after his recital of her prowess, much as we had esteemed the bonnie ship, we now thought all the more of her, for as ill the times of her previous owners, so now...
13. CHAPTER XIII.During this wait we whiled away the time by seeing football played in seas of mud, and half lost in fogs, women by the thousands with heads uncovered except when they pulled the...
7. CHAPTER VII.The barges with the "guards" on them had been sent down through the canal as soon as they had crossed the lake, and were now safely moored at the Ontario level in the outer harb...
4. CHAPTER IV.During this decade the Niagara River was more increasingly traversed by many steamers, and became the main line of travel between the Western and Centre States by steamer to Buf...
6. CHAPTER VI.After the tour with Lord Dufferin had been concluded the "Chicora" was returned to Collingwood and laid up again to rest her reputation great and widespread as it was before, ha...
5. CHAPTER V.The way having been opened by the _Algoma_ between Georgian Bay and the Sault, with sundry extra trips beyond, N. Milloy & Co., of Niagara, brought up from Halifax, in 1868, the...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Under virile management the business on the route kept fast increasing and it became evident that more accommodation should be supplied even before it might become absolutely ne...
16. CHAPTER XVI.With three "Line" steamers and five trips a day, the route kept on steadily developing, the service being attractive, and the line kept well before the public, but the season's...
3. CHAPTER III.The _Frontenac_ was followed by the _Queen Charlotte_, built in the same yards at Finkle's Point, by Teabout and Chapman, and launched on 22nd April, 1818, for H. Gildersleeve,...
10. CHAPTER X.During the winter of 1878-79, changes came. The _City of Toronto_ had tired of her partner. The railway companies had recognised the value to their route of the steamer of the N...
12. CHAPTER XII.The original terminus of the Lewiston branch, after it had emerged from the cuttings in the Gorge, was at the upper end of the town, about a mile and a half from the steamboat d...
14. CHAPTER XIV.During 1889 we had the pleasure of a visit from Captain George B. Boynton, the former owner of _Chicora_ in her blockade running days, who was delighted to renew acquaintance wi...
1. CHAPTER I.Since ever the changes of season have come, when grasses grow green, and open waters flow, the courses of the Niagara River, above and below the great Falls, have been the centr...
2. CHAPTER II.The era of steamboating had now arrived. The _Clermont_, built by Robert Fulton, and furnished with English engines by Boulton & Watts, of Birmingham, had made her first trip on...