Capt. James Carney

No mariner perhaps has a more onerous position than has Capt. James Carney, commander of the big C.P.R. ferry steamer Lake Ontario. He was born at Oxford Mills in this Province in 1850; was educated in the Common Schools, and at the age of fifteen, in 1865. he began sailing, the first vessel which he went into being the steamer Iron City. Afterwards he sailed in the steamer Meteor, the ferry steamer Essex, and on the steamer Florence, having between times meanwhile done a fair share of business on his farm and in the lumber woods.

During all the years of his lake career no disasters have happened to any craft Capt. Carney has sailed. For seventeen years he was mate and master on the G.T.R. car ferry Lake Michigan, and the Great Western at Windsor. He resigned his command of the steamer Great Western in 1890 and took charge of the new C.P.R. car ferry Ontario, which he has sailed ever since.

He has been on the lakes and rivers both summer and winter, mind you, no idle season for a car ferry captain, for over thirty years, and has never cost the owners of his vessel one dollar for damages. Naturally he can be proud of his record.

Capt. Carney was married to Miss Harriet Watson in Windsor in 1880 and has two children - Mr. Percy Carney and Miss Mabel Carney.

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