A Century Of Sail And Steam On The Niagara River

About this eBook

Author

Cumberland, Barlow, 1846-1913

Title

A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River

Credits

Produced by Charlene Taylor, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Steam-navigation -- Niagara River (N.Y. and Ont.)

Category

Text

eBook-No.

38542

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38542

Release Date

January 10, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
2. 2.By Barlow Cumberland
3. 3.PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
4. 4.FOREWORD.
5. 5.A CENTURY OF SAIL AND STEAM ON THE NIAGARA RIVER.
6. 6.INDEX.
7. 7.A CENTURY OF SAIL AND STEAM ON THE NIAGARA RIVER
8. 8.CHAPTER I. — The First Eras of Canoe and Sail.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — The First Steamboats on Lake Ontario and the Niagara River.
10. 10.CHAPTER III. — More Steamboats and Early Water Routes. — The River the Centre of Through Travel.
11. 11.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—
12. 12.CHAPTER V. — On the Upper Lakes With the Wolseley Expedition and Lord Dufferin. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER VI. — A Novel Idea and a New Venture—Buffalo in Sailingship Days—A Risky Passage.
14. 14.CHAPTER VII. — Down Through the Welland—The Miseries of Horse Towing Times—Port Dalhousie and a Lake Veteran—The Problem Solved—Toronto at Last.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII. — The Niagara Portal—History of Names at Newark and Niagara—A Winter of Changes—A New Rivalry Begun.
16. 16.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.
17. 17.CHAPTER X. — Change Partner—Rate Cutting and Racing—Hanlan and Toronto Waterside—Passenger Limitation Introduced.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. — Niagara Camps Formed—more Changes and Competition—Beginnings of Railroads in New York State—Early Passenger Men and Passenger Ways. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER XII. — First Railways at Lewiston—expansion Required—The Renown of the "Let Her B"—A Critic of Plimsoll. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.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.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. — RUNNING THE BLOCKADE ON THE LET HER B.—AS TOLD BY HER CAPTAIN-OWNER. — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.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.
23. 23.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.
24. 24.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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