Engineer Fred. Sayers Henning

Engineer Frederick S. Henning is a nephew of the late Mr. Thomas Henning, brother-in-law of the late Hon. George Brown, and is a resident of Toronto. He is one of the inventors of the water tower, the model of which was some time ago on exhibition in Toronto. Engineer Henning was born in St. Catharines in 1859. He served his time with Messrs. Mitchell & Co., master machinists, who did a great deal of marine work. His first venture was to run one of the first consolidated locomotives on the C.P.R. through the Rogers Pass in the Rocky Mountains. His initial steamboat engineering was done on the tug William Ross, on the Georgian Bay. Then he took charge of the machinery on the str. Cherokee on the run between Collingwood and French River. Fifteen years ago he went to Lake Winnipeg and sailed the steamer Millie Howe, later taking charge of the machinery on the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Colville, carrying supplies to the divers posts of the company around Lake Winnipeg. Nine years ago he went on the side-wheel passenger steamer Aurora, which ran on Lake Winnipeg and is still in service. Then he took charge of the engines on the Government tug Sir Hector, dredging at the mouth of the Red River.

Later Engineer Henning came to Toronto and had charge of the ferry steamer Mascot*, afterwards destroyed by floating ice in Sixteen Mile Creek at Oakville. He went subsequently on the ferry steamer Sadie, now called Shamrock, which had one of the first beam engines in Canada. Returning to the upper lakes, he took charge of the steam barge Lothair, engaged in the lumber business between Cleveland and Blind River. This vessel afterward foundered off Tobermory. Her machinery was recovered. Engineer Henning had charge on the steam barge W. B. Hall trading between Port Arthur and Kingston

[ *Likely Mascotte, built by W. E. Redway at Toronto in 1886 for the Toronto Ferry Co. ]

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