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Plan of City docks, 1836
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Plan of City Docks, 1842
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Dawing of str. Princess Royal
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Steamer Passport, Photo Author's Collection
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The steamboat Britannia at the Commercial Wharf
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The steam launch HERO berthed at the foot of Simcoe Street. In the backgrond is seen the Great Western Railway passenger wharf and beyond that, the freight shed and the grain elevator. Photo: Hamilton Public Library
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The Steamer EUROPA, at Montreal, after being broughtdown the rapids.Photo: National Archives of Canada, PA43035
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The Great Western Railway yards and shops,showng the grain elevator built in 1862.Photo Ontario Archives S-3990
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This woodcut shows the launch of the schooner Hercules atRobertson's Shipyard in 1863. The derrick at the right was onZealand's Wharf. Photo: Frank Woods
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Winter sport on the Harbour in 1863. This view of the Point at the foot Bay St. shows H. L. Bastien's boathouse at the extreme right. To its left is the Smith's Grain Warehouse witha schooner frozen in in front of it. Grant's Sail Loft appears next. The schooner at the extreme left is wintering at the endof the high wharf extending out from Williamson's Grain Warehouse. Photo: Hamilton Public Library
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Photograph of Louis Shickluna's shipyard at St. Catharines, reported to have been taken in 1863, showing the propeller AMERICA in the right foreground. The barkentine PRIDE OF AMERICA appears in the centre, with the propeller HER MAJESTY in the background. Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer ARGYLE berthed in the Canal Basin at Dundas Photo: Author's collection
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Steamer MAGNET berthed at Pointe au Pic Wharf, on the lower St. Lawrence. Photo: National Archives of Canada, C-4854
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The barkentine ETOWAH at anchor off MacKay's Wharf on her first visit to Hamilton. Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer CORINTHIAN in Hamilton Harbour Photo: Ontario Archives S-3999
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The propeller HER MAJESTY in the Canal Basin at Dundas in 1868 when the Dundas Foundry ws fitting new machinery.
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The old schooner TRADE WIND waiting for a good breeze, to start her on her way. She was built at Portsmouth in 1853 and lasted to 1909, a very long life.
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The propeller AFRICA at Port Dalhousie during a blockade on the canal. Alongside the AFRICA are two schooners, the second of which is the JESSIE H. BRECK. At the right are the propellers MAINE and ST. ALBANS of the Northern Transportation Co. fleet Photo: Author's Collection
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View of Zealand's Wharf, taken from the top of the high bank. At the lower left, a vessel is under construction in A. M. Robertson's Shipyard. Photo: the late Edward L. Zealand
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City Docks, 1874
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The Hamilton & NorthWestern Railway wharf
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The Hamilton & NorthWestern Railway's lower trestle over Land's Inlet. The new wharf with its freight shed appears at the left. Photo: Frank Woods
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A.D. MacKay's propeller CELTIC
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The steam barge D.R. VAN ALLEN Photo: Oswego County Historical Society
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The steamer ALGERIAN berthed at Swift's Wharf in Kingston Photo: Author's Collection
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This view, lookiing north east from the foot of Catherine St. shows Myles Coal wharf on the left and Murton & Reid's wharf, with the schooner ELLA MURTON wintering, on the right. Photo: Hamilton Public Library
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The propeller ST. MAGNUS upbound in Lock 19 of the Third Welland Canal Photo: Author's Collection
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Captain Edward Zealand, Jr., master of the propeller ZEALAND, which foundered with all hands west of Nicholson's Island in 1880. Photo: the late Edward L. Zealand
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West End Wharves, 1882
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Propeller ACADIA in the Thousand Islands after she had been lengthened. Photo: Author's Collection
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The propeller MYLES and the schooner T.R. MERRIT unloading grain at the "Town House" Elevator in Midland. Photo: Author's Collection
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Loading Timber--The Canal at the Beach
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The Burlington Canal, looking out toward the Lake, from the top of the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club house. The steamer MACASSA is passing the swing bridge built by the Hamilton & NorthWestern Ry. in 1876. The Main Light Station was established in 1838. In the foreground is one of the ferry slips. Photo: Author's Collection
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Murton & Reid's coal wharf. Photo: Author's Collection
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The schooner ST. LOUIS downbound at Lock 4 on the Third Welland Canal in tow of the tug A.D. CROSS Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer MODJESKA in Hamilton Harbour Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer MACASSA in Toronto Photo: Author's Collection
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The propeller OCEAN is show in the second Welland Canal at St. Catharines. Astern of her is th EUROPE and at the right is the schooner AUGUSTA. The Red Mill appears in the background. The buildings at the upper right comprised McCordick's Tannery and the City Foundry & Engine Works. Photo: Author's Collection
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The little steam launch ALFIE in the Canal Basin at Dundas. Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer Arabian fitting out at Robertson's Shipyard in 1892. Photo: Author's Collection
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Steamer Arabian Photo: Oswego County Historical Society
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The steamer CHIPPEWA leaving Toronto Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer Acacia in Lock 1 at Pt. Dalhousie. Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer CITY OF WINDSOR at Sault Ste. Marie after her service on Lake Ontario. Photo: Author's Collection
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The propeller OCEAN hauled out on Rathbun's ways at Deseronto after her confrontation with the barge KENT.
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The bob-tailed swing bridge with a car of the Hamilton Radial Electric Ry. crossing to Burlington Photo: Author's collection
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Looking north, showing the Ocean House on the right and an inter-urban car heading for Hamilton Photo: Author's collection
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The Hamilton Steel & Iron Company, 1900. This Photo was taken from the top of the Blast Furnace, and shows the Office in the foreground. Beyond the tracks in the Open Hearth shop with its two stacks and to its right is Harvey's Inlet, with Lottridge Inlet beyond it. The three short stacks belong to the Rolling Mill boiler house, behind the Open Hearth. Photo: Stelco Inc.
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Steamer CARLO: the first deep sea tramp steamer seen in Hamilton. This shows her loading rails at Conneaut, Ohio, in June 1900 Photo: Robt. J. MacDonald, reproduced by Randolph Rhodes
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The Hamilton Steel & Iron Company's wharf in 1900 showing the three McMyler Whirlies for unloading iron ore cargoes. Photo: Author's collection
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Schooner STUART H. DUNN entering the Burlington Canal n 1900 with a cargo of coal. Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer ROSEDALE Photo: Author's Collection
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The steamer ALGONQUIN Photo: Author's Collection
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This volume is copyright The Estate of Ivan S. Brookes and is published
with permission of the Estate. The originals are deposited in the Special
Collections of the Hamilton Public Library.