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Barlow Cumberland. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
A CENTURY OF SAIL AND STEAM ON THE NIAGARA RIVER
INDEX
A CENTURY OF SAIL AND STEAM ON THE NIAGARA RIVER
CHAPTER I
The First Eras of Canoe and Sail
CHAPTER II
The First Steamboats on Lake Ontario and the Niagara River
CHAPTER III
More Steamboats and Early Water Routes
The River the Centre of Through Travel
CHAPTER IV
Expansion of Steamboating on the Niagara—its Decline—a Final Flash and a Move To the North
Flour, per barrel, Toronto to New York—
CHAPTER V
On the Upper Lakes With the Wolseley Expedition and Lord Dufferin
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI
A Novel Idea and a New Venture—Buffalo in Sailingship Days—A Risky Passage
CHAPTER VII
Down Through the Welland—The Miseries of Horse Towing Times—Port Dalhousie and a Lake Veteran—The Problem Solved—Toronto at Last
CHAPTER VIII
The Niagara Portal—History of Names at Newark and Niagara—A Winter of Changes—A New Rivalry Begun
CHAPTER IX
First Season of the Niagara Navigation Co.—A Hot Competition—Steamboat Manoeuvres
Special Inducement for this. Excursion to the Falls
TORONTO, NIAGARA AND BUFFALO STEAMBOAT LINE
CHAPTER X
Change Partner—Rate Cutting and Racing—Hanlan and Toronto Waterside—Passenger Limitation Introduced
CHAPTER XI
Niagara Camps Formed—more Changes and Competition—Beginnings of Railroads in New York State—Early Passenger Men and Passenger Ways
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XII
First Railways at Lewiston—expansion Required—The Renown of the "Let Her B"—A Critic of Plimsoll
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIII
Winter and Whiskey in Scotland—Rail and Steamer Alongside at Lewiston—How "Cibola" Got Her Name—On the Route—The U.E. Loyalists Ongiara Added
CHAPTER XIV
RUNNING THE BLOCKADE ON THE LET HER B.—AS TOLD BY HER CAPTAIN-OWNER
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XV
The Canadian Electric to Queenston—An Old Portage Route Revived—History of the Two Portages—The Trek to the Western States—Chippewa Arrives—Notable Passenger Men
CHAPTER XVI
"Cibola" Goes; "Corona" Comes—The Gorge Electric Railway Opens to Lewiston—How the Falls Cut Their Way Back Through the Rocks—Royal Visitors—The Decisiveness Of Israel Tarte
CHAPTER XVII
Cayuga Adds Her Name—niagara and Hamilton Joined—The Niagara Ferry Completed—ice Jams on the River—Once More the United Management From "Niagara to the Sea."
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Barlow Cumberland
Published by Good Press, 2019
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No absolute date for the launching of the Ontario or of the giving of her name has been ascertainable, but as she was not commenced until August it certainly could not have been until after that of the Frontenac on Sept. 7th, 1816. The first boat launched was, therefore, on the Canadian side.
The movements of the steamers in the spring of 1817 are more easily traced. Niles Register, 29th March, 1817, notes, "The steamboat Ontario is prepared for the lake," and Capt. Van Cleve says, "The first enrollment of the Ontario in the customs office was made on 11th April," and "She made her first trip in April."
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