CANADA STEAMSHIP LINES LIMITED Subsidiaries and predecessors Introduction
' In·l913, the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company .together with its subsidiaries amalgamated with four other· steamship companies to form Canada Steamship Lines Limited. ln__ l973, -on the diamond jubilee of the formation of.the company, the directors · of c.s.L. agreed to donat.e the surviving records of ·these companies and their predecessors to the Queen's University Archives to be available to all interested researchers. _/The collection contains records of over sixty separate shipping. shipbuilding, towing or coal and dock companies •. beginning with the Societe de Navigatiorr /du Richelieu in 1845 and, for several companies which · joined c.s.L. after 1913, extending well into the 1920's. ~orne historical files and random records of c.s.L. itself were stored with the records of the earlier companies and have also been transferred to Queen's. Several companies are documented by only the most meagre of records, but for .the majority, the essential corporate records have been'preserved. Full minutes of meetings of directors and shareholders exist for most along with complete information on ownership. Details regarding-·catgoes, sailings, wages and steam techology are missing. but the broader economic patterns of the St. Lawrence - Great Lakes shipping route, and the changiftg corporate and,financial structures . of the companies .in~'lved in both the freight and passenger · business are fully ,resented. Records are most ex- · · tensive for the 18 .' '.s and the first decade of this . · . century as shipping companies proliferated in a · favourable economic climate. Inland shipbuilding, coal supply and even trans-atlantic freight service all formed part of early c.s.L~ operations and are documented by the collection. / / The records arrived in the Archives during October 1973, in no discernible order. They have been arranged. and are listed below by company. though where records of different companies were boxed together, this proximity has been maintai~ed. An index by company to the container · and item listing has also been prepared to.bring together related items shelved separately because of their or~ginal· . • • placing with other company records or simply due to the difficulties of shelving bulky record books and loose papers.
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Saguenay Line steamers a firm that preamble that it Is "for the purpose of . Even though severe opposition was lt took the Richelieu Company many had been an important 'and friendly preventing competition and the reduc- frequently encountered in the years Y:ears to find out why Its latest acquisi- connection operating from Quebec to tion of fares." Under the agreement, from· 1863 to 1875,. the company con· tlon was not altogether a paying ven- the Saguenay River, but which had not • the earnings between Montreal and tlnued to pay large dividends · and ture. The secret lay in the fact that been overly prosperous. This venture, Quebec were. pooled between the two constantly added to its fleet But the I when the summer trade developed,. though sound in principle never ]. companies and In 1860 the Richelleu ships were always crowded ·from the they weren't able to take care of the proved a satisfactory undertaking until Company paid their opponents:$3,463.46, . first trip in spring to. the last trip in business offering, owing to the small the company put its own larger and being one half the surplus which they fall.._ It l.s. in. teresting to note that the capacity of the steamers.t Ith is imalso more commodious steamers on the had earrl.l.'!d' over and above the earn.. · paft'ige-money from Montreal to Que- interesting to note that up o t is t e, route. This rounded out a complete ings of their opponent. bee was Jb50 first class and $1.00 deck the whole business of the company - syst·em· of navigation from Toronto to In the same ,Year ·the company pasSage. These rates of course were the company's books, deliberations of the Saguenay River, approximately 800 acquired La Compagnie de la Rive occasionally cut whe~ oppositlo'n was . the directors, the minute books, etc. - . miles, and wh~l~ it was an excellent Nord du St. Laurent, which had op- encountered, particularly in 1873, when · had been conducted entirely in French. tourist proposlhon, there was very erated the SS. Cultivator, at one time · we find the rate by the steamer In the early eighties, further oppor- little freight carried, and only express remembered by Montrealers as a ferry· Quebec reduced to $1.00 including 1 · tunlties for consolidation presented package freight at that. '. boat to St. Helen's Island. In 1861, the · . berth and by the steamer Canada 75 · 11 · Richelleu company had a. capital of cents Including berth• . , $161,733.33 and its fleet embraced five· ,: By now, over three-quarters of the ' steamers. It Is a remarltable fact that .. \ :fleet of the Richelieu Company was· I in many cases the season's operations - · composed of ships that 'had once been l' I resulted in gross earnings greater than in opposition to the company. In I . the total capital of the company. contrast to this desire to enter into I· About that time the RicheUeu com· fields exploited by others, the Riche~ pany embarked on a program of build· lieu Company seems to have continu- ing which made It famous for many - ally kept in mind that its future was years and advertised Canada very · mapped out to cover the whole Cana• widely. The Montreal, built in 1861, dian waterways system. the Quebec, built in 1865, . and the So came in 1875 the culmination of Canada, in 1867, were really remark- long .years of negotiation in the con· able ships, long in advance of what solidatlon of the Richelieu Company i. could be seen in any other country. with the Canadian Navigation Com~ The model of the SS. Quebec was pany, which had previously been exhibited at several World's Fairs and known as the Royal Mail Line, run- the Montreal and Quebec were ·for 25 ning from Toronto to Montreal. This years. the finest ships of their type in was a very important amalgamation, I·~ existence. the bead of the Canadian Navigation In 1861, the company purchased the Company being Sir Hugh Allan, whose Societe de Navigation de Terrebonne knighted son, Sir H. Montague Allan, and l'Assomption, and the Compagnie later became a director of Canada de NaY.igation du Lac St. Pierre, which Steamship Lines. The Canadian Navia brought into the Richelleu firm the gation Company owned eight steamers vessels Terrebonne, Chambly, Yamaska, which, together with the vessels of the i .. 5 r. l ;,,:;\ ,,.,..'. ,. "('J-.. . ••.•:'.v" ••. .;' '~I ---_ j ::-;~- (" .,.Q·. ·.v'· \·
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I King, the Quebec, the Rapids Prince quite youthful countenance, faultlessly A new policy wa8 established which across Lake Ontario, was not partic I and the Saguenay, besides other ships attired in the most rigorous London had for its object the rebuilding of the ularl;y interested iD jetting passenger. being constructed and modernized, so fashion, and of rather retiring general entire fleet on modern and more gen. buslneas on through to the Thousand that by 1911 the company's fleet from appearance. It would only be fair to erous lines. It was planned to begin Islands. and otbe:r eastern points. Toronto to the Saguenay River was make a little frank confession here. [ .. at the weakeit point and to buDd , in splendid shape. The writer mistook this young gentle· large. commodious steamers for the · '!'be Rlc&elleu & Ontario, even in its man for the Secreta17 of .one of the Toronto-Montreal line. with speclallt most progressive days, remained self- It was about this time that rumors visitors in question, and for a moment designed observation steamers for tbe satisfied - booking passengers. to the I. . began to come thick and fast of naviga he was much in doubt as to whether Rapids Division. But this program was end of its own lines and letting them ,. tion mergers and .the R. & 0. people · he should be allowed into the meeting delayed for several years owing to the find their own way to their ultimate beard with contempt that their own or not. The mention of his name, how poor financial position of the R. & 0. destination by whichever route they I. snug Uttle company was to be included. ever, proved to be the magic password, at the time. . : chos~ similar state of affairs with No attention was paid at first to these but I still think if he had been kept The first vessel to be built under the regard ttftrelght existed among several rumors but gradually the mystery sur out of the meeting there would have new regime was the steamer. Toronto. large al)d growing freight lines on the rounding many conversations among been no amalgamation. He was no She was far ahead of anything afloat River .and Upper Lakes. There were navigation people began to clear. other than the one man in whose on Canadian waters and attracted a , rumors of expansion in regarct to most Rumors began to take concrete shape, fertile brain the present Canada Steam 1 and it seemed quite clear to everyone ship Lines was conceived - Colonel great deal of attention. The ship was of these companies, which expansion except certain Richelleu & Ontario W. Grant Morden of London, England." presented with flags of the city of would have brought about the ruin or interests, that a big amalgamation was Toronto, and the launching was at- crippling of one or perhaps of all the in the offing, and that the R. & 0. was The negotiations began on that day tended by a large and · distinguished .. · competitors, . as past events have part of it. and extended over several meetings, gathering, . · '· ' prover,t· ending In the appointment of the above · 'Not only was the Richelleu & Ontario .. , .;,'It :.did .. not seem to occur to the F. Percy Smith, who was then mentioned gentlemen to seats on the Navigation Company developing re- ,,..: .varioUs interests concerned that each secretary of the Richelieu . & Ontario, Board of the Richelicu & Ontario-the markably at this period but - cor- ; . was a natural feeder to the other. And, reporting on ·the events of the time company at the same time acquiring responding to the general progress of though fairly prosperous at the time- said that he had learned at one of the control of the Northern Navigation Co. the country - there were other units, notwithstanding the great disadvantage Board meetings that "a few unobtru Ltd. and the Inland Lines Limited. both freight and passenger, that had ·of heavy overhead charges for man- sive-looking gentlemen had something Shortly afterward the Niagara Navi reached the point in their deve.lopment . agement and· the maintenance of so to communicate to the Board. The gation Company was acquired. / where the policy of expansion into : many separate organizations- the one Director who gave this message to his By February, 1913, the new interests the fields of their neighbors had to be · :;· thing .lacking was co-ordination and confreres, did not consider that the had acquired control of the Richelieu faced. And, in most cases, it was a consolidation to produce a transports- · matter was of much importance, but as·. and Ontario and new faces appeared question of expanding into territory· tion system of world-wide significance. the gentlemen had asked for an inter- \ on the Board. As time went on, the controlled and operated by friendly And so, while these various units con- view, it might do no harm to listen to ' general scl1cme of amalgamation began connecting lines or sitting still and ·unue,d to develop, there was happily, \· them. · to take on more definite shape. In a seeing their own territory invaded by in the first decade of the twentieth "At the time, appointed, viz., March 'very brief time the company's name such companies. century, no inJurioUs expansion by 30th, 1911, the Secretary was instructed became the Canada Transportation For instance the Northern Navig~- these companies beyond the immediate to invite the gentlemen in question Lines Limited and almost immediately tion Company' had no interest in en- field of their own endeavors. And the into the Board Room to a meeting of after, Cannda Steamship Lines, Limited. the Directors. On opening the door to A number of independent vessels were couraging travel over Lake Ontario. . situation remained unchanged for brought in, as well as several compa "."'' and the st. Lawrence River to the want of some guiding genius to shape . . admit the visitors, the Secretary recog Saguenay; neither had they reason to the destinies for the general good of · nized Mr. James Playfair of Midland, nies, more particularly the Canada Mr.!C. A. Barnard, K.C., of Montreal, IntGrlake Lines Ltd., a large and be concerned as to where their sum- all~ Mr. Edmund Bristol, K.C., M.P., of prosperous freight line; the Ontario mer tr~elers journeyed in the winter Following the construction of the T{)ronto, and Mr. J. R .. Binning of and Quebec Navigation Company, the months, The Quebec Steamship Lines Toronto there came the steamer Kings- · Messrs. Furness, Withy & Co. of Mont- Lake' Ontario & Bay of Quinte Steam- to beautiful Bermuda and the fairy ton, slightly larger, and then the ) 1 • ,. /. < N• ... •• ~ ,'.,_"" ' '~ ·,:..
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I ·ce;~~~ly did not: .yet in t~e report 1 ., now before you · the net earnings are ! shown as $1,700,000." ..... ~.,. . Even the most bitter adversaries of the merger had been silenced. Car ruthers expressed it this way: "The majority of our preferred shareholders were once s h are h o 1 de r s of the i Richelleu and Ontario Navigation Com I pany, and I, among others, of the then I directors of the R & 0 Com I· pany, was more or less criticized in I I I certain quarters for advocating the t transfer to the Canada Steamship Lines. But, as ·the results of the last two years have shown, the earning powers of this company Is largely in its freight boats, and the passenger boats, of which the R & 0 fleet was principally composed, have had two very disappointing years. If you are THE OLD S'S. QUEBEC, bvlllln Sorel In 1906, was 303 fl. long with a 33-fl, beam and t I getting back dividends today it is the 12-fl. depth a11d displaced 3,o4U lolls. freight boats that. are earning it for . ' .. you." · The package freighter had come into · boat Company and the Quebec Steam- .· · pany; Rlchelleu & Ontario Navigation its own and the splendid company, pub ' ship Company (the last-named operat Co. of Indiana· - with the' Canada lication of that year, "By-Water,\' an J. w. NORCROSS Ing lines as far away as South Interlake Line Limited; Quebec Steam nounced the principal freight services America). · ship Company Limited; Lake Ontarlo to be as follows: (1) From Montreal to & Bay ot Qulnte Steamship Co. Lim· the head of the Lakes, by steamers of missed as unsightly craft, the GrE .A new ma~agfng dlreclor, J .. W. !ted: and Ontario.& Quebec Na.vigation the type of the S.S. Hamiltonian; . (2) Lakes package freighter has streng Norcross, took his seat on the Board . Co, Lfmited. From Montreal to Toronto and Hamil· and dignity." and the gigantic task of welding the · ton· and vice versa; by steamers ·.of · scattered . Interests and systems into Before very long, the wisdom of the 1 the type of the S.S. City of Hamilton; In September, 1916, R. V. Robins4 one concrete organization was begun centralization of these many Interests I , . (3) From Montreal to Quebec and vice general freight agent of the North£ in real earnest. began to manifest itself clearly• .Tames versa, by steamers of the type of the Navigation Company, reported on I Carruthers, Canada Steamship Lines' I S.S. Montreal. ' freight traffic on the Great Lakes HEN the amalgamation was first president, reviewing the actlvltles \ follows: "The percentage of increase W finally consummated in 1913, it ot the year 1915, told the shareholders: ,A writer of the day lamented the the package freight trade is not, consolidated the subsidiaries of the •'I think . I may venture the opinion t fact that Canada lacked a Conrad to . course, as great as the increase in · I wheat trade. Nevertheless, the cc Rlchelieu & Ontario Navigation Coin· · that we ·should all feel gratified wben capture in vigorous English some of 1 pany - Northern Navigation Co. Lim· a comparison Is made with the figures ~··' the grimness, the severity and ro· pal'!son is a good one to make and v ited; Niagara Navigation Company . ' . mance of shipping on the Lakes. He · indicate clearly the tremendous stri of 1914. When we met here this time • I. Limited; Inland Lines Limited; Thou• last year I do not think the most op particularly singled out the CSL : that have been made in the pnck 1 sand.,.Island Steamboat. Company; St. timistic would have expected an in· ;package freighter as "sturdy, depend ', freight trade. In the year 1879 th Lnwrence River Steamboat Co. Lim· crease In net earnings of about $800,000 . able and patient." He wrote: "Neg· passed through the Soo locks 33 ij !ted; Niagara River Navigation Com• over the prf!vious year. Your directors lected by marine artists and often dis· barrels of flour and 40,432 tons of o! Jt I 9 I!· I . ~ . .··. . ·' '·i.' .. '· •• .1 e
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And in May, 1918, the .com for the Canadian Govermnent and, as pany purchased all the outstanding early as 1827, a Davie yard had launch ·As he went on to point out, one ot ! ed the first .British warship ever to be .,..., the not-too-good habits related to ocean shares of the St. Lawrence & Chicago shipping: "It is not my purpose to Steam Navigation Company Limited, a built in Canada - the King Fisher, an 18-gun brig of the Royal Navy. I dwell on the mistakes of the past which company operating four steamers on were so severely criticized by the the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence The Davie story Js in itself among waterway. ihe most romantic in Canadian h!story stockholders, by the newspapers and an~y some day be told in apprOpri- by the public generally, as we shall However, . while. the Lakes trade ate dem"lh... · . · have enough to do to avoid mistakes flourished, the ocean venture seemed of our own in the future without ill-fated from the start. War losses and · on· April''io, 1928,. the company pur· ,1 looking backwardi but I do want to heavy depreciation on ships soon ex· · chased the entire capital stock of the assure every member of our organiza acted Its toll. Worse still, the drastic George Hall Coal & Shipping Corpora- {· tion that . the company is now com reduction in freight charges that was . tlon which had operated 30 lower lakes pletely out of the ocean service and to follow the Great War hacked off steamships. Six days later It acquired, will in future confine its attention . more of the company's revenue~ Soon. for cash, ~ertaln assets of the Great ! strictly to its lake and river business, i11 the early 'twenties, these· losses Lakes Transportation Company, Lim· I which is as sound today as it ever was · 'began to gnaw materially Into the lted, consisting of 10 upper lakes steam· I and which will continue to develop resources of the company ,and finally, ... ships, one barge, one floating elevator, I' with the growth of the territory which in 1925, C.S.L. was forced to abandon one steamship under construction, to it serves." , its ocean shlpplng venture. In April, gether . with a grain elevator at Mid J. ·.By that year - 1927 - the entire 1920, Quebec Steamship Co. Ltd. was land. Ontario, having a capacity of four Investment in the ocean fleet had been sold to Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd. and mlllion bushels, a cold storage yard at I .. JAMES CARRUTHERS·· ..· written off. the books. Investment ln in 1926, the company .disposed of its Midland, and also the entire capital · . t· First' 'President of C:SL another 35 fresh-water ~teamships had in.terest in Intereontinental Transporta- ·. stock . of the :Midland. Shipbullding • f . ' been wiped off, too, and a total ot 4S tlon Limited. Company, Limited. · · of the oldest steamships had been sole I. . . "And now, !n order to Introduce myself or retired since 1923. In the space oJ 'rn the meantime, other a~Quisitions Ji'our years earlier, WUllam H. Cover- to y~i.t, let me say ·that I was born at those same five years, 61 steamship1 had been made. In 1920, the company dale had taken over the presidency Kingston, Ontario, somewhere under had been ndded to the fleet by pur· obtained all the shares of the Montreal . of the company and his influence had the shadow of· the asylum and· peni.:., · ·chase or construction and it now con Transportation Co. Limited. This 'firm' now begun to be felt. More than any . L····I ·c tentlary, about.56,years ago, as you see·, slsted o~ 115 steamships; 23 passenge: had maintained freight, tug and barge other 'single man, 1\e was to shape the from the photograph. AU of my early steamsh1ps; 23 upper !akers; 49 canal ·services on all the lakes and, at the destin:r, of this great strictly trans- · life, after I got out of school, was spent \ lers: 20 package freighters. time of Its absorption, was one of the portatibn company (unlike other great as a civU engineer, mostly on railroad \ Business remained good in those nex widest-known Canadian cargo-handling . shipping companies, C.S.L. was not a w:ork, and all .of my later years have \few yea1·s that p1·eeeded the depres companies. In 1922, C.S.L. bought all : ·. subsidiary to a steel company or a min I . · ·• been given to. the reorganization and · 1slon. As early as this, C.S.L. employ the bonds and shares 'of the .Century ··V· lng syndicate) through its modern his- 1 ' management of ·tratlspo.rtationi and in- . ees were already enjoying the benefit coal Company, Limited, with coaling . tory. · . ''l ·.· dustrlal companies. :.. . .. of modern personnel practices and, i wharves at the important ports on the u i h ••canada Steamship Lines owns and November; 1927, they were confronte Great Lakes and St Lawrence s ng t e occasion of the inaugura- /operates a property' which is worth with a pension plan. Passenger h·aW .. - • · tion of a new employee publication, ·upward of $44 millions of any man's was booming and in the Davie yar . Of great significance was the ac.. the ''C.SL. Chart." on May 2, 1927, he quis.iUon in 1925 of the Davie Ship•. addressed his employees. as follows: money. It Is the largest fresh-water tw,o new steamers, the Quebec and tl1 l ' 10 11 / .·,. "' ".'·" .,. . ','.. ' Ii ~. \ -~. . 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1.,·: ·i~. I ' /. ,.'~ • . ' ; ~ Tadoussae, were nearing completion: passenger and freight steamships on. I Each with 32 of the newly developed the Canadian Great Lakes, and we have ', twin-bed type of room and spacious the most of them also, as you can prove dining rooms capable of accommodat for yourself by watching the red, white ing 225 persons at a sitting. On the and black smokestacks either en route ships and at the terminals, .mechanical or in· any Canadian .harbor from Port freight-handling devices - the fore· Arthur and Fort William to Quebec••• runners of present-day C.S.L. tech· niques in materials handling Which "We are particularly proud of our have won recognition the world over new passenger and freight terminals were being installed. The Package at Toronto, as we consider that our Freight Division was enjoying ever· facilities at that point are modern, eUi· increasing tonnages; three new pack eient convenient and well worthy of age freight steamers had been built the 1nspection of anyone who is in· during 1927 and more were contem· terested in transportation matters." plated. C.S.L. had carded more than At about the same time, on a Sep 800,000 tons of package freight during tembe.r: midnight, the company's re· l the year. sort at '"'Murray Bay, the old Manotr. The company had taken on the Richelleu With all its , romantic as- agency for the County Line and the . ·sociations was burned to the ground.' l: arrival' of the S.S. Laval County in By October! 500 men were already at Montreal on May 6, 11127, spelled the work erect ng a new Manoir, to be inauguration of a regular sailing sched· one of the great resort hotels of North ule between Bordeaux, France, and America. Through the rigors of winter Montreal. And everywhere ori the at Murr~y Bay, they worked within a THE MAHOIR RICHEUEU at Murray l~y. Ia one of lhe thow spots in the Canada Steamship L~tokes, C.S.L. vessels were shattering special frame shell they bad erected Lines·· tou,rht Itinerary. It was rebulllln l929 after ihe old buildings had been destroyed by flr111. cargo-handling records: At Fort Wil· to combat the ice and snow. With the llam, the S.S. Renvoyle arrived with advent• of spring, the copper roofing . \ .. 4,500 tons of package freight. The S.S. began to peer over the wooden shell sembly ·of pittures ·and furniture Ire· In addition to the County Line, the Lemoyne-633 feet long and then the and the shell itself was soon being calling the early days of· this country. company now announced agencies for largest ship on the lakes - unloaded dismanUed. By June - only eight . Of more pragmatic significance, the the Hamburg-American Line, operating 553,530 bushels of wheat at the Govern•. ~ months after the fire - a new and company was turning out package between Montreal and Hamburg, and ment Elevator at Port Colborne ln the grander Manoir Richelieu was opened freighters that were then the last word the Red Cross Line, running a fort summer of 1928. This was .the largest to the public. in constructi~n. size and equiP.ment. nightly service between Montreal, St. cargo of grain ever carded· by .allY President Coverdale had always Those of the Lake Superior type were J'Ohn's, Nfld., and Charlottetown, P.E.I. steamship. evinced a great interest in things Cana capable of carrying 2,250 tons on a 14-. The rapid development of Western At 1;.\le Tor.onto Exhibition in Septem dian, and the finest historical murals, foot draughti where the older type of . Canada saw the opening of C.S.L. ber, 11128, President Coverdale an• paintings and furnishings were ordered ship had on y· capacity for 1,1100 tons · offices at Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, . nounced to the public: ''The company for the new hotel. At about the same on the same draught.· Eight of these .Edmonton and Vancouver, with traffic is being run today on the one idea time, too, he authorized the purchase vesselS had been built during the past \ representatives in charge to quote rates, of eUicient service to· the public; we of the George A. Cuthbertson collec· four.: years and the ·assistant freight :furnish particulars of the forwarding ,I want you to know us~ and to ·know tion of paintings and drawings of ships 1 manager of the time, L. J. Bu'rns, said: of shipments and - in the company'~ about us: nothing in the nature of a of the Great Lakes. The company also ''But with the opening of the new words - "to facilitate the spirit of co · transportation business requires con ' extended aid to .Mr. Cuthbertson to Weiland Canal the present generation operation between shippers in the Easl ! cealment - we have no trade secrets. publish hlii book "Freshwater," an· au l· will probably· witness the entry to To and consignees in the West." -we want to carry the message of who thoritative history of the Lakes. All ronto Harbor ot package freighters of Almost symbolic of things to come we are and what we do to every poten the11e were later to form part of the at· least 5,000 tons capacity. This means was the retirement in early 1929 oJ tial passenger and shipper within the W. H. Coverdale Collection of His• 250 20-ton carloads, or approximately Captain Oliver Patenaude, the com· sound o! our tooice. We have the best torical . Canadiana, an outstanding as- four train-loads." pany's oldest skipper and pppularl.) "l ·, ,/ \ 12·. 13 'l.. I ·.· I~ -~.... ~ '•"-,' ~ .. !' .. .-· ... -· Index to companies mentioned in the listing of the records of Canada Steamship Lines Ltd., its subsidiaries and predecessors. The numbers refer to item numbers. American Interlake Line Ltde 136 Balmoral Investment Co. Ltd. 108 /.-r ---- Bishop Navigation Co. Ltd. 149, 150~-151 Canada Interlake Line Ltd. 137, 13a, 139, 140, ------141, 142 Canada Steamship Lines Ltd. 2,3,4,5,9,10,11,12, : 174,175,176,177,181 Canadian Inland Steam Navigation Co. ttd. 172 Canadian InterlakecLine Ltd. 132,133,134,135,137 Canadian Navigation Co. 21, 173 Canadian Shipbuilding and. Engineering Ltd. 109,126 Canadian Steel Barge Co. Ltd. 152 Canadian Towing and Wrecking Co. Ltd. 3,162,163~164, 165,166 Collingwood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. 125 Collingwood Shipyards Ltd •. 126, 127 Colonial Transportation Co. Ltd. 103 . Compagnie Canadienne Transatlantique Ltee. 156, 160 Compagnie de Navigation de Longueil 98 Compagnie de Navigation du Comte Laprairie 98 • Compagnie du Richelieu 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Co. Ltd. 158 Dominion Coal Co. Ltd. 158 Dundee Steamship Co. Ltd. 104 Dunelm Ltd. 168. Empress Transportation Co. Ltd. 113, 159 Halifax Shipyards Co. 151, 158 Hamilton and Fort;William Navigation Co. Ltd. 119, 120 Hamilton and Mo~treal Navigation Co. Ltd. 122,123,159 Hamilton Shipbu;Llding and Ferry Co. 101 T.S. Hare and Qo. Ltd. 107 Inland Lines L~d. 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 167, 181 Inland Navigation Co. Ltd. 123, 124, 143, 169 Interlake Transit Ltd. 170 Interocean Transportation Co. Ltd. 160 Kingston Shipbuilding CoQ Ltd. 109 Kingston Shipyards Ltd. 126 Lake Saint Francis Navigation Co. 159 Midland Coal Dock Co. 143 Midland Navigation Co. Ltd. 106 Midland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. 105, 106 ' Midland Towing and Wrecking Co. Ltd. 106 Montreal Coal and Dock Co. Ltd. 107 Montreal Transportation Co. Ltd. 116, ·117, 118 t. -2- New Ontario Dock and Coal Co. Ltd. 110. 111 New Ontario Steamship Co. Ltd. 112 Niagara Navigation Co. 99. 100. Port Arthur Shipbuilding Coe Ltd. 128, 129~ 130, 131. Port Colborne Dock and Coal Co. Ltd. 113 Prescott Terminal Co. 101 ----- Quebec and Gulf Ports Steamship Co. 157/ ----- Quebec Steamship Co.· 157 ___ _/ Reid Towing and Wrecking Coy_Ltd. 3. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. Ltd. 15,21.23 to 97 159.178.180.181 Richelieu and Ont~rio Navigation Co. Ltd~ of the United States. 85 . St. Lawrence and Chicago Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. 152- St. Lawrence River Steamboat Co. Ltd. 153 Societ~ de Navigation de Terrebonne et L'Assomption. 22 Societe de Navigation du Richelieu. 13 · Societe de Navigation du St. Laurent et du Riche}ieu. 14 Societe Naphtes Transports. 158 Sorel Ship-building and Coal Co. Ltd. 158 Sorel Ship-building Co. Ltd. , 158 Stadacona Steamship Co. Ltd •. '108 \ Standard Shipping Co. Ltd. 3 J . Steamships Ltd. 102 . Strathcona Ltd. 160 Thousand Island Steamboat Co. 154. 155. 159 Tidewater Re~lties Ltd. 158 Tidewater Shipbuilders Ltd. 158. 171 Toronto Coal and Dock Co. Ltd. 114. 115 Transport Agencies Ltd. 159 Union Steamship Co. Ltd. 121. 159. 160 Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. 108 Winona Steamship Co. Ltd. 103. 179 Wolvins Ltd. 10~ l t
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I. . Canada Steamship Lines Limited Subsidiaries and predecessors
1. 5 unidentified record books. 5" T.c. -~--- Canada Steamship Lines //-- "-~-· N.F. Howell fi 1 es. /_./ (Howell was ·secretary of c.s.L. ~n the 1950's. These files. items·-no. 2 to B.J were assembled by him from the records of earlier company s~cretaries.] legal documents and correspondence concerning the purchase and sale of c.s.L. property. vessels and holdings; statements of assets. auditors certi ficates and other documents forwarded to their trustees. (listing of docu ments on cover of each file.) 1912-60 1 cu.ft. -' 3. N.F. Howell files. s.s. Piaponge. correspondence re•l Canadian Towing and Wrecking Co. 1919-20 correspondence and financial ) . statements. directors' minutes 1919-24 . Reid Towing and Wrecking Co. correspondence. financial statements. 1918-22 Standard Shipping Co. audit of transactions between it and c.s.L. 1922 N.F. Howell files 1 cti.ft.· monthly imnancial statements for c.s.L. 1 , Apr.l963 to .Jan.l965 · operating. statementsl for c.s.L. 1962-66 building statements 1954-57 minutes of subsidiaries 1954 by•laws of C.S.L. 1953 ftnan~ial statement for c.s.L. 1954-5 standard practice instructions C.S.L. 1965 organization charts C.S.L. 1953 statement re operation of canal bulk freig~ters. C.S.L. 1928-35 miscellaneous publications of C.S.L.
• -2- 5. N.F. Howell files. report of inquiry and correspondence and claimt arising out of the burn ing of s.s. Quebec. 1950 5" r.c. 6. N.F. Howell files. miscellaneous publications re shipping. 5" r.c. N.F. Howell files. -- miscellaneous government publications re shipping. 5" r.c. 8. N.P. Howell files. miscellaneous government publications re shipping. . . 5" T .c. 9. c.s.L. scrapbook of correspondence, memoranda and court decision re legal proceedings, liability claims etc. affecting C.S.L. 1919-1940 1 volume typed index enclosed. 10. c.s.L. acrapbook of correapondence, memoranda, court decisions, statements of claim and news clippings re • c.s.L. 1941-~s 1 volume typed index enclosed. 11. c.s.L. scrapbook news clippings re burning of the s.s. Noronic. 1949 1 volume· 12. C,S.L. register of fractlaa:_nal share certificates issued. 1 .'·36 · ,_,;; ' 1 volume 11, La Soci4tl de tJvigation ~•cord book containing accounts re building of and barge. 1845 ahareholders 1845 ahare transfers 1~·~-~ minutes 1847·49 distribution of d ..... - ..L""-' holders, listing capital invested ,,.,., I ''*~ and signature ac··-··-- 1857-1866• 1 volume
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14. La Societ~ de Navigation du St. Laurent et du Richelieu. later La Compagnie du Richelieu. minutes 1847-68 1 vol.
15. La Compagnie du Richelieu. ------minutes PP• 60-147. 1868-75 Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. minutes PP• 148-458 and PP• 15-56 1 vol. 16. La Collqlagnie du Richelieu~ --- dividend book. listing names of ·shareholders, residence. capital invested, amount of dividend and signature acknowledging receipt. 1867-87 1 vol. 17. La Compagnie du Richelieu. . share transfer book. 1857-68 1 vol.
~8. La Compagnie du Richelieu. / share transfer book. 1869-75 1 vol. 19. -La Compagnie du Richelieu. account book re shareholders. 1857-69 1 vol. ,·r'·-\ . . j 20. La Compagnie du Richelieu. account book re shareholders. c.l866-77 1 vol. 21. La Compagnie du Richelieu. account book re shareholders. c.l870-80 list of shareholders in the Canadian Navigation Co. 1875 enclosed inside cover with equivalent in Richelieu and Riche1ieu and Ontario Navigation Co. stock. //. 1 vol. 22. La Societe de Nf"igation de Terrebonne et L•Assomption , share transfer book. 1860-1861 . 1 vol. ··c ··-- (orily 6 pages used). 23·.- Riche1ieu and Ontario Navigation Co. minutes of directors. 1893-96 1 vo1. 24. Riche1ieu and Ontario Navigation Co. minutes of directors. 1896-1902 1 vol.
' ' ...,._,-- ... 4- 25. Riche lieu and Ontario Navigation Coo minutes of directors. 1902-06 1 vol. 25a. Riche lieu and Ontario Navigation CoG minutes of directors. 1905-12 1 vol. ~ ' 26. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. minutes 9f directors. 1913-16 1 vola -~- 27. Richelieu and Ontario_Navigation Co. stock transfer book. May 1875 - July 1876 28. ditto. July 1876 - Sept. 1877 29. ditto. Sept. 1877 - Oct. 1878 30. ditto. Oct. 1878 - .Jan. 1881 31. ditto. July 1882 - Mar. 1883 ' 32. ditto. Mar. 1883 - Oct. 1884 33. ditto. Nov. 1884 - Apr. 1887
) 34. ditto. Apr. 1887 -Mar. 1889 35. ditto. Jan. 1893·- July 1895 36. ditto. July 1895 - Mar. 1898
37. ditto. Mar. 1898 - J~n. 1899~ 38. ditto. Aug. - o,ec. 1899 39·. ditto. l{ec. 1899 - Oct. 1900 t 40. ditto. f!Apr. - June 1901 41. ditto. July - Dec. 1901 .,.,. 42. ditto. Mar. - Apr. 1901 43. ditto. Jan. - Feb. 1902 - / 44. ditto. Mar. - July 1902 45. ditto. Jan. 1902 - June 1903 46. ditto. June - Oct. 1902 -5- 47. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. stock transfer book. June - Sept. 1903
48. ditto. Sept. 1903 • Dec~ 1904 49. ditto. June - Nov. 1904 r.o. ditto. March - Dec. 1904 &1. ditto. Nov. 1904_- Mar;;l905 &2. ditto. May - Nov. 1905 u. ditto.. Feb. -oe·c. 1906 ... --ditto. Dec. 1906 - Oct. 1907 ... ditto. Oct. 1907 - May 1908 ... ditto. May 1908 - Feb. 1909 .... ditto. Feb. - July 1909 ditto." July - Dec. 1909 •• ditto. Dec. 1909 - June 1910 • .. ditto. June 1910 - Jan. 1911 ditto. Jan. - Mar. 1911
ditto.~· Mar. - Apr. 1:911 . ditto. Apr. - June 1911 ditto• ~nrr- July- 1911 ditto. fbuly - Oct. 1911 ditto. Oct. - Nov. 1911 ditto. Nov. 1911 - Jan. 1912 .' / ditto. Jan. - Mar. 1912
ditto. Mar. - M~y 1912 ditto. May - June 1912 ditto·. ·June 1912 -6- 72. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. stock transfer book. June - Ouly 1912 . 73. aitto. July 1912 74. tlitto. Aug. - Sept.·1912 ---~-"'' ... ·--' 75. ditto. Sept. - Oct. 1912 ---~/ ____. .. -·· .... --· .-- 76. ditto. Oct. - Dec .-~"r912 . 77. ditto. Dec. 1912 - Feb • 1913 ;·:~ : ; . 78. ditto. Feb. - Mar. 1913 79. ditto. July 1914 - Aug. 1934 capital stock so. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. stock ledger. c.1880-84 81. ditto. c.l885 - 1895 82. ditto"" with index. c.l895-97 ' ) 83. ditto with index. c.1899 - 1900 ,. -~. ,, 84. ditto with index. c.l900 - 1903 85. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. corresponde~nce. legal documents • shipbuilding specifications re incorporating R. and o. Navigation Co• in the state of Indiana and the operation of the u.s. Co~pany. 1910-1914 1 cu.ft. 86, Richelieu ~nd Qttario Navigation Co. - stock l•dger~ 1911 I vol. 87. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. cancelled stock.certificates 1 cu.ft. sa. ditto. 1 cu.ft!l" 89. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. statement of earnings and expenses. 1912 court proceedings. Quebec vice-admiralty court. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. vs. s.s. Cape .. Breton. n.d~ 5" T.C.
• ' -7 ... 90 •. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. 5 books of stubs f.rom issuing stock certificates 5n r.c.
91. ·Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. ~------monthly balance book. 1893-95 .- -· _.. 1 vol. 92. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. monthly balance book. n.d.- - 1 vol. ----~--· 93• Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. secretary's~office claims against the Company. 1908-1912 1 vol • . -· ... 94. Richelieu an.d Ontario Navigation Co. correspondence register 1 vol. 95. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. scrapbook of circular letters. notices and forms. 1904-09 1 vol.
96. R.i~helit!a and Ontario Navigation Co. scrapbook of circular letters. notices and forms. 1908 1 vol. :..···()·.· .. 97. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. debenture and bond coupon books. 8 vols. selected at random from sever~! · score of ·such books. 98. · · La Compagnie de Navigation du Comte Laprairie · minute book. 1866-1885 · La Compagnie de Navigation de Lo11gueil minute book~ /1866-1881 5" r.c. 99. Niagara Navigatton Co. stock ledger. 1908 5" r.c. 100. Niagara Navigation Co. .. debenture book. 1906-1911 . . stock transfer book. 1911-1912 file of legal papers including letters patent. 1878 letters and papers from minute book. 1902 •. consolidated by-laws. 1910 mortgage to Toronto Trust Co. 1906- · 5" r.c. I • -8- 101. Prescott Terminal Company minutes. 1911-1917 Hamilton Shipbuilding and Ferry Co. Ltd. minutes. 1916 cancelled shares. 102. Steamships.Ltd. (1923-1942) minutes. 1923-1941 stock ledger and stock trari~s'fer book stock certificate book bylaws .5" T.c.
103. Colon~al Transportation Co. Ltd. minutes and bylaw$• 1909-1911 share certificates. 1910· Winona Steamship Co. Ltd. minutes and bylaws. 1906-1908 Dundee Steamship Co. Ltd. minutes and bylaws. 1906-1908 5" T.C. 104. Dundee Steamship Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1 vol. 105. Midland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. minutes. 1917-1940 financial statements. 1926-1940 5" T.C. 106. Midland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. stock tran$.fer book. c.l920-1930 share certificates. Midland Navigation Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1903-6. 1909-10 Midland Towing ~d Wrecking Co. Ltd • .·. share certifi,.tates. 1901 5" T.c. · · 107. Montreal Coal «nd Dock Co. Ltd. minutes. 1916-1918 register of stock issued and transfers. 1916-1926 T.S. Hare and Company Ltd. minutes. 1917-1925 letters patent. 1913 5" r.c.
I . : • -9- 108 .. The Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. minutes. 1909-1922 Stadacona Steamship Co. minutes. 1909-1911 Wolvins Limited minutes. ·1917-1931 (in 1931 name changed Investment Co. Ltd.) minutes. 1931-1932 ··- 5" T.c. 109. Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. minutes and bylaws. 1931-1944 {'2 copie$) agreement. Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. and K~ngston Shipyards Ltd. 1953 5" T.c. JlO. New Ontario Dock and Coal Co. Ltd. minutes. 1902-1907 New Ontario Steamship_Go. Ltd. __ minut~s. 1902-1908 . : ' . 5" T.c. 111. New Ontario Dock and Coal Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1904-1907 1 vol. '' ". 112. New Onjario Steamship Co. Ltd. snare certificates. 1903-1908 1 vol. 113. Port Colborne Dock and Coal Co. Ltd. letters patent. 1914 minutes. 1914-1925 register of stock issued. 1914 share certificftes. 1914. 1925 Empress Transpo~-ation- Co.- of Midland .. share certiflpates. 1907-1909 5" r.c. 114. Toronto Coal arid Dock Co. Ltd. minutes. 1917 register of stock (unused). 5" T.c. 115. Toronto Coal and Dock Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1917 116. Montreal Transportation Co. Ltd. minutes. 1903-1917 1 vol. 117. Montreal Transportation Co. Ltd. minutes. ·1917-1921 correspondence, legal papers -10 .. 117. Montreal Transportation Co. Ltd. (continued) lists of shareholders, evaluation of property. offers to purchase stock. 1916-1921 · correspondence re surrender of letters patent. 1943
118. Montreal Transportation Co. Ltd. - _.....-'P" captains' ledger. n.d. - . 1 vol. . 119. Hamilton and Fort William Navigation Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1900-1902 1 vol. 120. Hamilton·and Fort William Navigation Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1902-1906 1 vol. 121. Union Steamship Co. Ltd. ./ - share certificates. 1905-1907 1 vol. 122. Hamilton and Montreal Navigation Co. Ltd. sto~k certificates. 1906 1 vol. \ '( J 123. Hamilton and Montreal Navigation Co. Ltd. ··~, :, bylaws. 1903 Inland Navigation Co. Ltd. minutes and bylaws. 1908-1912 5" r.c. 124. Inland Navigation Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1908-1909 1 vol. 125. Collingwood ShiQbuilding Co. Ltd. minutes and bflaws. 1917-1927 includes min~~es. Kingston Shipbuilding/Co. Ltd. 1927-1930 5" T.c. 126. Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. minutes and bylaws. 1926-1944 monthly financial statements. Dec.l955- Nov.l956 annual balance sheets. 1946-1951 financial statement. Dec. 1954 auditors' report. Dec. 1955 Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. · balance sheet. 1951 Kingston Shipyards Ltd. auditors ' report. oec. 1955 and Dec·. 1956 5" r • c • -11- 127. Collingwood Shipyards Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1940 1 vol. 128. Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. minutes. 1930-1955 preferred stock ledger. c.l916-1927 common stock ledger. c.l916-1927 --- abditors~ report. 1952-1955 1 cu.ft. 129. Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. common stock transfer book. c.l926-1927 l·vol. 130. Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. common share ¢ertificates. 1940-1951 1 vol. 131. Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. preferred share certificates. 1940 1 vol. Canadian Interlake Line Ltd. / 132.. minutes and bylaws. 1912-1917 common· stock ledger. 1912 preference stock ledger. 1912 stock.'transfer book. 1912. license Ontario. 1912 5" r.c. 133. Canadian Interlake Li·ne Ltd. preferenci stock certificates. 1912 1 vol. 134. Canadian Interlake Line Ltd. ordinary stock certifi.cates. 1912 1 vol. - 135. Canadian Interlake Line Ltd. bond 'coupon book. 1917 1 vol. 136. American Interlike Line Ltd. bond coupon qpok. 1919 1 vol. 137. Canada InterlaCe Line Ltd. and Canadian Interlake Line Ltd. bond coupon book. 1913-1917 1 vol. ··· 138. Canada Interlake Line Ltd. preference stock register. 1913-1914 common stock register. 1913·1914 minutes. 1925 l""bOX 139. Canada Interlake Line Ltd • . common stock ledger. c.1913-1914 1 vol •
• -12- 140. Canada Interlake Line Ltd. preference stock ledger. c.l913-1914 1 vol. 141. Canada Interlake Line Ltd. common stock certificates. nos. 1-1000 4 vols. '· .,....;.-r"'- 142. Canada Interlake Line Ltd. ~/---- ~·--- preference stock certificates.nas.~Ol~lOOO 2 vols • .- ... ---- 143. Inland Lines Ltd. minutes and bylaws. 1910-1912.1925 correspondence. agreements and cont~acts. 1913-1914 concerning operations and subsidiaries: Inland Navigation Co. · Midlana Coal Dock.Co. correspondence re merger of Inland Lines Ltd. and Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. 1912. appraisal of property and assets. 5" r.c. 144. Inladd Lines Ltd. share ·-.certificates. 1910 1 box 145. Inland Lines Ltd. stock register. 1914 ("Inland" crossed out and "Canada Steamship'' inserted}. 1 vol. 146. Inland Lines Ltd. common stock certificates. No·~251-500 1 vol. 147. Inland Lines Ltd. preference stock certificates No .. 751-1000 1 1 vol. 148. Miscellaneous ;{ 1912 summar-y returns of 16 sh'ipping. shipbuilding and coal companies to Ontario Government 1913 summary returns of 17 shipping. shipbuilding and coal companies to Ontario Government (each gives list of officers and · shareholders} 3 unidentified record books. 5" T.C ..
' -13- i49. Bishop Navigation Co. Ltd. letters patent. 1919 minutes. 1919 stock ledger and transfer book. 1919 share certificates. 1919 cash books. 1919 150. Bishop Navigation Co. Ltd. correspondence. bank statements. stock transfers accounts paid. 1919-1920 5" r.c. 151. Bishop Navigation Co. Ltd. correspondence. invoices. statements of assets re dealings with Halifax Shipyards Co. and c.s.L. ·1919-1920 5" r.c. 152. St. Lawrence and Chicago Steam / Navigation Co. Ltd. le.tters patent. 1890, supplemented 1894.1902. 1903' direC-tors' minutes. 1890-1916 general minutes. 1891-1913 stock book. 1890-1903 The Canadian Steel Barge Co. Ltd. letters patent. 1892 1 box
, .....- 153. St. Lawrence River Steamboat Co. act of incorporation. 1880 by laws • 1911 m1nutes. 1925 share certificates.' 1894-1912 list of direct.ors. 1911-1912 1 box ! 154. Thousand !slant Steamboat Co. minutes. la84-1919. 1925 bylaws. 191'1 certificate of incorporation (N.Y.) 1884 list of directors. 1911 1 box ··-···· 155.._ Thousand Is. land Steamboat Co. share c~rtificates. 1893-1912 1 vol.
5.\ .. -14- 156. Compagnie Canadienne Transatlantique Ltee. minutes, bylaws and legal papers. 1919-1920 letters patent. 1919 stock book. 1919-1920 share certificates. 1919-1920 1 box 157. Quebec Steamship Co. ..·· minutes- bylaws. contracts-; 1910-1916 (scattered) bonds. 1914-1919 stock transfer book. 1913 bond transfer book. 1895-1914 builders~. certificates. plans. invoices re ships: "Bermudian" "Korona" "Guiana" "Mariana" "Parima" statements from agents of tickets on hand. 1913-1914 insurance agreements on s.s. Hunt.er .1880:..1881 letters to Quebec and Gulf Ports Steamship Co. 1873-1880 1 cu. ft. 158. Sorel Shipbuilding Co. Ltd:.: minutes. 3 Oct. 1916 and lease from C.S.L. to Sorel Shipbuilding. June 1916 stock certificates. 1916 Sorel Ship-building and Coal Co. Ltd. letters patent. 1916 · supplementary let~ers patent changing name to Tidewqter Shipbuilders-Ltd. 1918 Tidewater Ship96ilders Ltd. share certif,rr:ates. 1920 corresponden~e and plans. 1918 · re construction of single screw cargo steamer arbitration before Mr. c.s. Sims between Tidewater Shipbuilders Ltd. and Halifax Shipyards Ltd.and Dominion Coal Co. Ltd. 1924 ·statement of-case by Tidewater, brief and statement of claim by Halifax reply submitted by Tidewater. appeal to Quebec Court of King's Bench re Tidewater Shipbuilders Co. vs. Societe . Naphtes Tran·sports • 1925, factums and appendices •
. . ' -15- 158. Sorel Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (continued) Tidewater Realties Ltd. minutes. 1918-1920 share certificates. 1918 Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Co.. Ltd-. typed copy of minutes and letters ;_--··- patent. 1914pl921 ~/ 1 cu. ft .. .. ~-~_..,....----..-..-../ 159. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. minutes of directors. 1905-1906 Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. vs. The King and the City of Sorel transcript of evidence. May 1909 signatures of directors. 1886pl893 Transport Agencies Ltd. snare certificates. 1927. and bank book. Lake Saint Francis Navigation Company letters patent. 1875 Thousand Island Steamboat Co. stock book. 1911-1912 minut~s of Hamilton and Montreal Navigation Co. Ltd. 1909-1910 Empress Tr~nsportation Co. of Midland Ltd.,. '-1907 Union Steamship Co. 1909-10 enclosed at back of volume. 5" T.c. 160.· Strathcona Limited minutes. 1907-1908 Union Steamship Co. Ltd. .. min'u.tes of sha'reholders meetings. 1905-1908 Compagnie Canadienne Transat1antique Limit~e minutes of dir~ctors. 1919 . lnterocean Traniportation Co. Ltd. letters pate ; • 1919 minutes of d rectors. 1918 lists of shareholders. legal papers. 1918-1919 5" T.C. 161. Interocean Transportation Co. $hare certificates. 1918 1 vo1. 162. Canadian Towing and Wrecking Co. Ltd. minutes o{ directors. 1915-1924 minutes of shareholders. 1915-1924 ! ~st~ck transfer book and stock ledger bank book cancelled share certificates. 5" T.c. I
r. •. -16- 163. Canadian Towing and Wrecking Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1918 1 vol. 1 --vol .. 1 vol.
1 vol. 167. Inland Lines Ltd. common share certifieajes - unused. 1 vol. 168. Dune ln1 Ltd. share certificates. 1907' 1 vol. l-69. Inland Navigation Co. Ltd. -"' share certificates. 1908-1910 1 vol.
170~',., Interlake Transit Ltd. share'certificates. 1910-1911 1 vol.
,. 171. Tidewater Shipbu.ilders Ltd. ) correspondence register 1 vol. 172. Canadian Inland Steam Navigation Co. dividend book.: 1863-1874 listing names of shareholders, number of shares, amounts invested, dividend, and signature acknowledging receipt. 1 vol.
173. Canadian Naviga~ion Company ' stock transfefo book. 1873-1875 1 vol. 174. Canada Steamshfp Lines Ltd. manager's office correspondence register. 1919-1919 175. Canada Steamship Lines Ltd. secretary's office correspondence register. 1919-1923 · 1 vol.
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1 I ' -17- 176. Canada Steamship Lines Ltd. secretary's offic~ correspondence register. 1924 1 vol. 177. Canada Steamship Lines Ltd.
cheque register - paymaster's .-~- account. July • December 1916 1 vol 178. Stadacona Ltd. ______copy of letters patent. 1907 and bylaws. Richelie~ and Ontario Navigation Co. transcript of evidence, December 1906 in Exchequer Court involving Richelieu . and -Ontario Navigation Co. • Northern Elevator Co. Ltd., Canada.Atlantic Railway Co., Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd. 5" r.c.
/ · 179. Winona Steamship Co. Ltd. share certificates. 1906-1916 1 vol. 180. Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co • . share certificates. 1912 Richelieu and_Ontario Navigation Co. 14 volumes cancelled A share certificates "· 10 volumes cancelled B share certificates 16 ·volumes-cancelled C share certificates 6 volumes cancelled D -. share cert;!ficates Canada Steamsh#p Lines Ltd. 10 volumes C}/ancelled A · share ce~tificates · 1 volume cancelled B share certificates 6 volumes cancelled debenture stock certificates 1 printing plateau for Manoir Richelieu advertisement . Inland Lines Ltd. ·4 volumes cancelled share certificates. 5" r.c.
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