A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River

by Barlow Cumberland

A CENTURY OF SAIL AND STEAM ON THE NIAGARA RIVER.

Chap. I.—The First Eras of Canoe and Sail [9]
Chap. II.—The First Steamboats on the River and Lake Ontario [17]
Chap. III.—More Steamboats and Early Water Routes. The River the Centre of Through Travel East and West. [25]
Chap. IV.—Expansion and Decline of Traffic on the River. A Final Flash, and a Move to the North [36]
Chap. V.—On the Upper Lakes With the Wolseley Expedition and Lord Dufferin [47]
Chap. VI.—A Novel Idea and a New Venture. Buffalo in Sailing Ship Days. A Risky Passage [58]
Chap. VII.—Down Through the Welland. The Miseries of Horse-towing Times. Port Dalhousie and a Lake Veteran. The Problem Solved. Toronto at Last [68]
Chap. VIII.—The Niagara Portal. Old Times and Old Names at Newark and Niagara. A Winter of Changes. A New Rivalry Begun [80]
Chap. IX.—The First Season of The Niagara Navigation Company. A Hot Competition. Steamboat Manoeuvres [94]
Chap. X.—Change Partners Rate-cutting and Racing. Hanlan and Toronto Waterside. Passenger Limitation Introduced [109]
Chap. XI.—Niagara Camps Formed. More Changes and Competition. Beginnings of Railroads in New York State. Early Passenger Men and Ways [119]
Chap. XII.—First Railways to Lewiston. Expansion Required. The Renown of the Let-Her-B. A Critic of Plimsoll [134]
Chap. XIII.—Winter and Whisky in Scotland. Rail Arrives at Lewiston Dock. How Cibola got Her Name. On the U. E. Loyalist Route. Ongiara Added [143]
Chap. XIV.—Running the Blockade on the Let-Her-B. as Told by Her Captain-owner [156]
Chap. XV.—The Canadian Electric Railway to Queenston. An Old Portage Route Revived. The Trek to the Western States. Chippewa Arrives. Railway Chief [165]
Chap. 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. [178]
Chap. XVII.—Cayuga Adds Her Name. Niagara and Hamilton Rejoined. Ice Jams on the River. The Niagara Ferry Completed. Once More the United Management From "Niagara to the Sea" [189]

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