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Chapter 3
Port Hamilton
Table of Contents

Title Page
Preface
Introduction
1 A place called Hamilton.
2 Public Works and Private Enterprise
3 Port Hamilton
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
4 1837-1839
5 Ericsson Wheels
6 1844-1847
7 Good Times in Port
8 Boom Town Days
9 Depression Years
10 Better Times Ahead
11 1867-1870
12 Prosperity for the Shipbuilders
13 The Second Railway Building Era
14 1884-1888
15 The Electric Era
16 The Iron Age
Table of Illustrations
Index

1830

In April, 1830, a short-lived newspaper called the Gore Balance published a few items of interest. On the 8 April, it informed its readers that the dredge was still working in the Burlington Canal and that it was expected that the work would be completed

"in a few days"
. Four days later, this paper published a quite impressive list of sailing vessels, passing through the canal: GENERAL BROCK,Capt. Kerr,REBECCA and ELIZA,Capt. Zealand,BRITANNIA,Capt. Roberts,MARGARET,Capt. Mitchell,TRAFALGAR,Capt. Enoe,TELEGRAPH,Capt. Boylan,MINERVA,Capt. Kent,BROTHERS, Capt. Chas. McIntosh,MOHAWK CHIEF,Capt. Campbell,PEACOCK,Capt. Philo D. Bates, and KINGSTON PACKET,Capt. Knox.

An interesting advertisement was placed in the Niagara Herald in 1830, giving the sailing schedule of the steamboat ALCIOPE,Capt. Jas. Mackenzie. Leaving Prescott every Friday morning, she made the following ports of call: Brockville,Kingston,Cobourg,York,Burlington Canal,Grimsby,Port Dalhousie and Niagara. Her agents were listed as: W. D. Miller,Niagara,Archibald McDonald,Kingston,Richard Feehan,York, and John Williams,Hamilton. So finally, Hamilton has appeared in the sailing lists.

On the 16 October 1830, the new steamboat GREAT BRITAIN was launched at Prescott. Built for the enterprising John Hamilton, of Montreal, she measured 147 x 23 x 12, tonnage 700, and she was powered by two beam engines of 90 HP each. Her accommodations and furnishings were said to be luxurious, and she proved to be very popular with the travelling public.

 

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