Capt. A. Macaulay

Capt. A. Macauley, of Southampton was born in Scotland in 1848. His father was among the first settlers in Southampton in 1855. "My father and my ancestors were seafaring people as far as I can trace." says Capt. Macauley

Capt. Macauley received his education in the Public School at Southampton. He commenced sailing when a boy with his late brother, Capt. George Macauley, who owned the steamer Bonnie Maggie.Capt. A. Macauley in 1863 crossed the ocean in one of the lake vessels and then shipping on the famous Great Eastern for New York, joined the United States navy. He served in several engagements. He was at the capture of Mobile, Galveston, Indianole, Port Lavacca and other places. He remained in the United States navy until the close of the war.

In 1869 he sailed the schooner Cascaden and was in her three years. Then he sailed the schooner Tecumseh for five years. In 1878 he sailed the schooner J. G. McGrath. On one occasion, while carrying stone from Point Pelee Island to St. Catharines for the new canal, he encountered one of the worst gales that ever swept over Lake Erie. The schooner foundered off Long Point. The crew got into the yawl boat just as the vessel was sinking, and reached Port Colborne in safety. From sailing vessels the captain drifted into steamboats, and for the last eight years he has sailed the steamer J. H. Jones, owned by the Messrs. McKay & Clark, carrying fish, freight, and passengers from ports and islands on Georgian Bay and Lake Huron to Wiarton.

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