Capt. Harry Michael Livingston

Capt. Harry Michael Livingston of the Toronto Ferry Company's steamer Mayflower is descended from sailors. His father, a native of Scotland, was an officer on an English man-of-war, and served in the royal navy for about 21 years.

Capt. Livingston has been sailing for more than 45 years. Although comparatively an old man, he has a marvelous memory, and easily recalls his early experience on the great lakes. At the age of sixteen he shipped on the fore and aft schooner Trafalgar. Afterward he was in the schooner Peerless of Bronte for nine years, when he changed into the steamer Lewis Shickluna. From her he went into the Sir Edmund Head, of St. Catharines. Then he was for nine seasons in the tug N. W. Sprague, towing rafts from Malden to Buffalo and Tonawanda. For one season he was mate on the three-masted schooner Gibraltar, of St. Catharines.

He was subsequently in the schooner Jane McLeod, of St. Catharines; was mate on the schooner Queen of the Lakes; on the schooner Hotchkiss, and on the Otonabee. He was mate on the famous old tug W. T. Robb, which took an active part in repelling the Fenian invaders in 1866. This tug's hull still exists, as a protector alongside the wharf at Victoria Park, east of Toronto. Capt.Livingston left the Robb to go into the steam barge Wales, engaged in the lumber trade. For ten years he has been with the Toronto Ferry Company. He is 66 years of age and a widower, his wife having died about four years ago. He holds a prominent position in the Oakville Fraternal Organization.

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