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- MISC Page Index
- Great Lakes Gavel 10.4(1954): 292
Le Prix de Lac Erie - contest to provide documentation of European
presence in the Americas prior to 1650 38.4(1982): 305
Lucky stones by I. S. H. Metcalf 3.4(1947): 241-43
Sailors thinking bicentennial by Al Mastics - about the celebration
in Newport, RI 32.2(1976): 147
Small craft restoration workshop by Kevin H. Baxter 31.1(1975):
74-75
Testimonial by W. F. Irvine 14.1(1958): 55
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- PAINTINGS/PORTRAITS Page Index
- Among the collectors - pictures 1.1(1945): 33-35
Architectural accuracy and the artists by C. Thomas Sibert -
mentions Charles Wardlow Sprague, Vincent Douglas Nickerson,
Howard Freeman Sprague, Seth Area Whipple 30.2(1974): 95-109
Erik Heyl exhibit 8.3(1952): 211
Great Lakes Picture Collection Exhibit 5.1(1949): 54
Historic mural - about Detroit 15.1(1959): 68
Marine art of Rowley Murphy by Alan Howard 18.3(1962): 243
Marine photography 8.2(1952): 138
Panorama of Great Lakes shipping - about paintings 25.4(1969):
339
Photographic rendezvous by T. A. Sykora 36.4(1980): 280
Sharing our treasure by John A. Burke - about rare shipyard portraits
54.4(1998): 264-65
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- PLACES Page Index
- All of water by John Franker - about Marquette, MI on
July 4, 1969 25.3(1969): 235-39
Along the Cuyahoga (OH) by Clarence H. White 37.1(1981): 33-34
Alpena - 70 years ago by Lew Hart - personal memories 22.1(1966):
49-58
Amazing life history of a small island by Kenneth R. Dickson
- about Green Island which is near Bass Island in Lake Erie 49.2(1993):
88-92
Annual Regatta at Put-in-bay by Thomas H. Langlois 3.4(1947):
244-47
Apostle Islands National Park movement, 1929-1932 by Lawrence
Rakestraw 32.4(1976): 263-69
Arcole (OH), Mill Town of the 1800's by David Vormelker 23.1(1967):
56-58
Around the Lakes - discusses Steamboat Island disappearing in
1901 15.1(1959): 54
Attack on Oswego, May 5 to 7, 1814 20.1(1964): 61-62
Bear-walk: A witchcraft belief still current among the Great
Lakes Indians compiled by Frank A. Myers about Manitoulin Island,
Ontario 9.1(1953): 12-18; 9.2(1953): 98-104; 9.3(1953): 169-74;
9.4(1953): 250-55
Benton Harbor editorial 8.3(1952): 214
Boating on the beautiful Maumee by John C. Hummelman 41.2(1985):
218-19
Boats and ships of the circle route by Doreen Rice - about SSM,
Michigan and Ont 18.1(1962): 62-65
Bob-Lo by John H. Bruce - about Bois Blanc Island 32.3(1976):
221-2
Bridge day by Gordon Macauley - Mackinac Bridge 13.4(1957): 269-73
Bridging the Straits of Mackinac by John T. Nevill - about Mackinac
Bridge 13.2(1957): 118-21
Bruce (Ontario) by William Sherwood Fox 1.4(1945): 18-22
Bruce-Terra Icognita by William Sherwood Fox - about the Bruce
Peninsula, Ontario 5.1(1949): 3-11
Buffalo piers and lighthouses 100 year ago 1.1(1945): 37-38
Buffalo's first harbor by Marvin A. Rapp 12.3(1956): 175-85
Burns Waterway Harbor, port of Indiana by Lt. Col Robert E. Kennington
35.2(1979): 86-94
Camp Perry (Ohio) by Virgil M. Gordon 21.3(1965): 259-60
Cape Rich (Grey Co., Ontario) by W. R. Williams 11.1(1955): 72
Cape Vincent's (NY) role in the Northern Transportation Company
fleet by Charles Armstrong 4.3(1948): 152-58
Carleton Island by Frederick C. Curry about NY 17.3(1962): 190-94
Cataract of Niagara 12.3(1956): 210-11
Caveat Emptor! - about islands located in Lake Superior 20.2(1964):
158
Caves on South Bass Island (Ohio) by Thomas H. Langlois 7.2(1951):
113-17
Chicago's passenger ships by Clarence J. Root covers the years
1888-1904 5.1(1949): 26-36
Commercial sailing on the Finger Lakes (NY) by Richard Palmer
44.3(1988): 176-89
Conneaut Harbor (Ohio) by Richard J. Wright 14.4(1958): 277-85;
15.1(1959): 29-35
Cove Island (Ontario) by W. R. Williams 10.4(1954): 289
Cruise to Georgian Bay in 1898 by Herbert L. Harley 51.4(1995):
21-32; 52.1(1996): 4-21
Cruising Georgian Bay in the grand manner by Theodore Wakefield
47.4(1991): 241-44
Dearly beloved attends the funeral by James Elliott - in Hamilton,
Ontario 49.4(1993): 296-99
Dedication of the Isle Royale National Park by Donna L Root 2.4(1946):
266-69
Depot harbour - the first seaway terminal by Fleetwood K. McKean
about Georgian Bay 21.3(1965): 180-86
Development of the Lake Superior Region by Hon. Peter White 11.2(1955):
92-102
Discovery of Sheguianah site, Manitoulin Island (Ontario) by
Thomas E. Lee 10.3(1954): 155-62
Discovery of Superior Shoal by Fred Landon 15.1(1959): 50-54
Dock and warehouse restoration at Hovland (MN) by Olga Soderberg
and J. Henry Eliasen 28.3(1972): 249-50
Early development of Frankfort Harbor (MI) by Edward S. Warner
25.1(1969): 57-60
Early harbor days by Phil Sander - set in Kenosha, WI 24.1(1968):
83-84
Early improvements on the St. Joseph River by LeRoy Barrett 46.4(1990):
307-17
Early navigation along the Saginaw by William J. Tarrant 6.4(1950):
222-24
Early navigiation on the Ontonagon River by Kenneth D. Lafayette
37.4(1981): 258-63; 38.1(1982): 31-36, 45-46
Early Travesre City News via lakes vessels by Edward S. Warner
22.2(1966): 121-26
Echoes of the stream by George Wakefield about steam tugs and
fisherman in Vermilion, OH in 1920s 52.4(1996): 296-301
Fairport Marine Musem, Fairport Harbor, Ohio by Pearl E. Killinen
22.1(1966): 84
Fairport: The transformation of a Lake Erie port, 1812-1870 by
Harry Forrest Lupold 37.2(1981): 90-101
Fayette by Ernest H. Rankin - about Fayette, MI 19.3(1963): 204-08
Fighting ships from Bay City by Bert C. Brennan 1.3(1945): 21-25
Firelands roads and taverns in the 1830's by Wallace B White
- about Ohio's Western Reserve 9.2(1953): 86-91; 9.3(1953): 200-07;
9.4(1953): 240-47
First Georgian Bay steamers by James P Barry 23.3(1967): 191-98
First vessel enters Frankfort Harbor 25.1(1969): 60
Flags on Longue Vue Island by Bill Beeney 28.1(1972): 68
Fort Erie . . . the meeting of the ways 32.1(1976): 53
Fort Sandusky on Sandusky Bay by Charles E. Frohman 19.1(1963):
12-25
Forwarding business in Oswego, 1800-1820 by Richard F. Palmer
41.2(1985): 100-11; 41.2(1985): 175-84
Founding of the port of Marquette by Ernest H. Rankin, Sr. 32.1(1976):
3-16
Fourth seacoast by Eric Ridder 28.2(1972): 151
From a forge a town was born by Ernest H. Rankin - about Philo
Marshall Everett and the founding of Marquette 20.1(1964): 31-40
From above "below" by Ernest H. Rankin - about the
Upper Peninsula 17.4(1962): 288-90
From shore the shore by M. Mansfield Stimson - about Detroit
in the early 1800s 10.3(1954): 195-205; 10.4(1954): 243-52
Gem of the Straits: Mackinac 1875-1895 by Kathy S. Mason 49.4(1993):
246-58
George Magoffin Humphrey room by John Large, Jr. - located in
Western Reserve 18.4(1962): 319-20
Georgian Bay cruise a century later by Donald W. Kaatz 52.2(1996):
130-43
Georgian Bay epoch - ships and shipbuilders at Coldwater by William
R. McNeil & Patrick Folkes - about the Hayes Brothers 39.2(1983):
106-11
Georgian Bay survey of 1885-1888 by W. R. Williams 13.1(1957):
10-16
Georgian Bay's grumbling point 7.4(1951): 280
Georgian Bay's Hamilton Island 7.1(1951): 61-62; 7.2(1951): 81-90
Ghost port of Milan and a druid moon (Part 2) by Wallace B. White
- about Milan, Ohio 6.4(1950): 211-21; 7.1(1951): 21-28
Ghost town and secret water by Beatrice D. Adams - about the
UP 6.2(1950): 93-96
Glacial erosion, Kelley' Island (Ohio)by Gerald W. Butler 12.2(1956):
125-27
Grand (Hotel) by Richard F. Palmer 50.2(1994): 81-85
Grand Haven - Once a great port by George A. Vargo 15.1(1959):
15-21
Grand Portage national historic site 7.4(1951): 278
Grandee again - about the Erie Islands 2.4(1946): 279-80
Grandee of the Erie Isles by Grant Ann Rideout 2.3(1946): 165-76
Grandee once more 3.1(1947): 48-49
Great Lady passes, Fort Ste. Marie 5.1(1949): 54-56
Great Lakes - first in photography by Richard Palmer and Anthony
Slosek - about the Oswego fire in 1853 43.4(1987): 226
Great Lakes Memorial Park by James M. Ripley - located in Menominee,
MI 22.3(1966): 257-58
Great Lakes ports: Chicago by Theodore S. Charrney - mentions
the Rouse Simmons 43.4(1987): 242
Great Lakes Ports: Manitowoc by Lawrence Carroll Allin 45.1(1989):
63-71
Great St. Clair River slush pile of 1984 by Gretchen Driftmyer,
Carol Johnson and Al Sweigert 40.2(1984): 126-28
Henderson Harbor by Richard F. Palmer 50.1(1994): 18-23
Herring Fishery of Lake Erie by Thomas H Langlois 2.2(1946):
101-04
Historic Hope Island - about Georgian Bay 8.4(1952): 284
Historic sites marked in Manitoulin Island region by Frank A.
Myers 16.3(1960): 196-202
Historical perspective of the Milwaukee River by Harry C. Brockel
25.2(1969): 105-22
History of Cedar Point (OH) by W. H. Evans 23.2(1967): 114
History of Mentor Harbor Yacht Club 12.2(1956): 79-85; 12.3(1956):
166-74
History of shipping at Mount Clemens by Norbert Neff 3.3(1947):
145-49; 3.4(1947): 224-32
History of the Cleveland Yacht Club, 1948-1952 by Al Mastics
8.4(1952): 263-67
History of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, 1852-1952 by Rowley
Murphy 8.2(1952): 75-82; 8.3(1952): 193-202
How Little Current (Ontario) got its name by Frank A. Myers 16.2(1960):
119-22
Huronia House (museum in Midland, Ontario) 11.4(1955): 298
Ice forms bridge in Niagara Gorge (1976) 32.1(1976): 80
Ice industry at Put-in-bay by Thomas H. Langlois 4.1(1948): 41-43
In Rock Harbor for shelter in 1901 by Fred Landon about Isle
Royale 12.1(1956): 24-27
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore 23.2(1967): 173
Inter-lake story by Al Mastics - about the Inter-lake Yacht Club
19.2(1963): 88-93; 19.3(1963): 220-26
Involuntary "first" about Sault Ste Marie 32.2(1976):
134
Iron Mines of Steep Rock Lake, Ontario by Hugh M. Roberts 6.3(1950):
139-43
Isle Royale Survey (by Marie E. Gilchrist 24.3(1968): 179-92;
24.4(1968): 303-04, 313-25; 25.1(1969): 26-40
Jackson Mine and Negaunee, MI by R. A. Brotherton 2.4(1946):
240-48
John Island's stolen sawmill (located in Georgian Bay' North
Channel) 8.2(1952): 139-40
John Wilson Murray and the Johnson's Island plot by William Frank
Zornow - about when the Confederates tried to liberate prisoners
from Johnson's Island near Sandusky, Ohio and to capture the
warship USS Michigan 6.4(1950): 249-57
Johnson's Island 12.1(1956): 70-71
Johnson's Island summer resort by William D. Preston 11.4(1955):
293-94
Johnson's Island: A history of the resort era by David W. Francis
36.3(1980): 156-64; 36.4(1980): 257-63
Joseph Dart and the emergence of Buffalo as a grain port, 1820-1860
by Arthur A. Markowitz 25.3(1969): 179-90
Killarney Harbor by W. R. Williams - Ontario 17.1(1961): 52-55
Kincardine (Ontario) and her nucelar power by W. R. Williams
17.4(1962): 284-88
Lake Erie harbors 9.4(1953): 248
Lake Erie mystery: A solution by Peter C. Zwick - set in 1763
about missing ships 39.2(1983): 123-25
Lake Erie Science Navy of Franz Theodore Stoen Laboratory by
Dr. Charles E. Herdendorf 38.3(1982): 156-64
Layup - Cleveland Harbor - 1936-1937 by Andy Sykora 30.4(1974):
289-90
Le Petit Mare De Keweenaw: A forgotten harbor on the south side
of Lake Superior by Dr. Bernard C. Peters 39.1(1983): 35-50
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- Legend and history in the oldest geographical names of
the St Lawrence by Marius Barbeau - discusses Toronto Bay and
Etobicke 17.2(1962): 105-13
Locational changes of water transport at Milwaukee by Donald
A Gandre 24.1(1968): 50-56
Look to Lorain (OH) by C. H. Harris 4.1(1948): 44-46
Lost treasure of the Beaver Island Mormon Colony by Carl A. Norberg
43.3(1987): 188-93
Lumber ports of Marinette-Menominee in the nineteenth century
by Carl E. Krog 28.4(1972): 272-80
Lure of Crystal Beach (Ont.) 24.2(1968): 162
Mackinac 20.3(1964): 230
Made in Toledo sailboats by Peggy Kaighin 43.3(1987): 159-63
Manitoulin (Ontario) history by Frank A. Myers 11.1(1955): 43-48
Mariner's Church (Detroit) 1.2(1945): 48
Maritime history of Clayton (NY) by Richard Palmer 49.1(1993):
47-66
Marquette's iron ore docks by Ernest H. Rankin 23.3(1967): 231-37
Memento of the Marine City 3.2(1947): 120
Memories of the Cleveland Ice Yacht Club by Charles W. Borgwald
and Milton N. Gallup 21.4(1965): 294-99
Memory tour of North Bass Island by Theodore N. Ferris 34.3(1978):
215-17
Mento Marsh becomes natural histroy - landmark located in Ohio
22.3(1966): 258
Michilimackinac by Ernest H. Rankin history of the place name
14.4(1958): 270-76
Monuments at Goderich and Kincardine by Capt. Robert A. Sinclair
- dedicated to unknown sailors who perished in the 1913 storm
36.1(1980): 20-28
Mormon pirates of Beaver Island submitted by Richard Palmer 54.3(1998):
195-98
Names on the Lakes by Richard P. Wallis - place names and their
meanings 14.1(1958): 15-25
Names on the land by William Donohue Ellis 30.4(1974): 242-55
Nautical City, U.S.A. - Rogers City, MI 33.4(1977): 327
Necessity - the mother of a boat line by Theodore N. Ferris -
about Pelee Island 34.4(1978): 262-71
Niagara Falls shut off, 1848 25.3(1969): 198
Niagara Falls threatened with disaster by Hon. Henry P. Smith
III - Smith's speech in the House of Representatives 21.1(1965):
83-84
Niagara Falls: Thunder of waters 19.2(1963): 148-52
Notes of my visit to Cleveland - 1881 34.2(1978): 121-27
Ogoki Saga - about the power plant in Ontario 4.1(1948): 15-21
Old Fort Erie by Marguerite A. Raymond 20.3(1964): 252-53
On Manitoulin Island by Wallace J. Baker, Sr 3.4(1947): 211-17
On the Cuyahoga (river) 24.2(1968): 152
On the Superior National Forest by Raymond Naddy 26.3(1970):
242
Ontario Beach Park by Richard F. Palmer 50.2(1994): 129-35
Origin of Put-in-bay 3.3(1947): 195-96
Origin of some stream names along Michigan's Lake Superior shoreline
by Dr. Bernard Peters 37.1(1981): 6-12
Oswego - graveyard of ships by Richard F. Palmer 45.1(1989):
13-25
Oswego and the McKinley Tariff by Richard F. Palmer 42.4(1986):
246-51
Oswego - Lumber Trade Capital of the U. S. by Richard F. Palmer
40.1(1984): 30-38
Oswego ship building by Richard F. Palmer 55.1(1999): 2-4
Passenger boats at Sandusky, 1880-1947 12.3(1956): 219-20
Paterson sailors memorial - located in Ft Williams, Ont 23.1(1967):
72-73
Paul Bunyon and the seaway - set in OH 18.2(1962): 152
Peninsula, the Pic River region and modern Marathon by Grace
Lee Nute 4.1(1948): 3-14
Personal look at the history of Ballast Island by Constance Gardner
Moore 45.4(1989): 250-55
Pilgrimage to paradox: The Holland harbor question by Randall
M. Miller 24.4(1968): 285-96
Port of Amherstburg, a century ago and now by David P. Botsford
- begins in 1840s 5.2(1949): 111-116
Port of Elk Rapids by Walter C Cowles 50.2(1994): 112-22
Port of refuge by Richard F. Palmer - about Oak Orchard, NY 43.2:
94-101
Port of Rochester (NY) by Blake McKelvey 11.3(1955): 155-63;
11.4(1955): 271-84
Port Stanley to Cleveland Excursion in 1849 by Fred Landon 10.2(1954):
137-38
Portaging Niagara by Brian L Dunnigan 42.3(1986): 177-83, 216-23
Ports and commerce of Georgian Bay by Albert G. Ballert 11.1(1955):
26-34; 11.2(1955): 119-25
Pronunication of Algonquian place names by Donald Chaput 21.4(1965):
322-24
Put-in-bay, Ohio September 10, 1692 by Thomas Andrew Sykora 20.3(1964):
240
Quaint harbors of the Great Lakes by Dana Thomas Bowen 4.4(1948):
228-33
Rails across the water by Carl E. Krog - about Menominee, MI
and Marinette, WI 29.3(1973): 170-76
Ringneck snakes on South Bass Island by T. H. Langlois 9.1(1953):
69
Rise and decline of an Apostle Island Fishing Camp: A Great Lakes
subsistence lifestyle by Ronald W. Johnson 41.1(1985): 20-27
Sandusky under three flags by Paul F. Laning 35.3(1979): 170-80
Saratoga of the West by John D. Dryfhout - about Grand Haven,
MI 20.3(1964): 185-95
Sarnia from the port-side by Anna Young (daughter of ship officer)
12.2(1956): 104-09
Saugatuck: Shipbuilding city by Carl A. Norberg 43.4(1987): 270
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan 24.2(1968): 150-52
Schooner voyage to Oswego starts cycling tour by Richard Palmer
- 1947 54.3(1998): 238-41
Sept Iles(Canada), 1965 by Fred Landon 21.3(1965): 255-56
Ship that never sailed by Preston J. Stegenga about Port of Holland,
Michigan 10.1(1954): 14-20
Shipbuilding at Chaumont Bay (NY) by Richard F. Palmer 48.4(1992):
241-54
Shipbuilding in Little Sturgeon Bay, 1866- 1874 by Walter M Hirthe
32.4(1976): 270-80; 33.1(1977): 12-21
Shipbuilding in the Niagara Peninsula: A study in nineteenth
century Enterprise by Bruce A. Parker 36.2(1980): 87-95; 36.3(1980):
179-85
Shipbuilding in Vermilion by Steven L. Barry 49.3(1993): 191-98
Ship-handling at Burns Harbor (IN) by Alan F. Gintz as told to
R E. Kennington 40.4(1984): 253-58
Shipping at Port Stanley (Ontario) 8.1(1952): 65
Ships at Port Arthur and Fort William by W. Russell Brown 1.4(1945):
45-51
Ships out of Frankfort by Earl J. Fillian 23.4(1967): 277-81
Ships that made Milwaukee famous by Edward J. Dowling 4.2(1948):
83-95 ; rep. 49.4(1993): 284-95
Sidelights on the Erie Isles by Thomas H. Langlois 3.3(1947):
173-79
Singapore: Michigan's imaginary Pompeii (part 1) by Charles R.
Starring - city located in early Michigan and mentions Oshea
Wilder 9.4(1953): 231-39; 10.1(1954): 21-25
Sixth Great Lake by Filomena Gould - Georgian Bay 23.2(1967):
121
Some Michigan place names honoring the Navy, by Theodore G. Foster
6.3(1950): 166-68
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- Some north shore ports by Dr. J. A. Bannister 16.4(1960):
299-306; 17.1(1961): 31-38
South Haven, ocean port in Michigan by George Vargo 11.1(1955):
49-51
Spying at Sackett's Harbor (NY), 1813 by J. MacKay Hitsman 15.2(1959):
120-22
St. Lawrence River 27.1(1971): 139-40
Ste Marie-on-the-Wye (Ontario) by Elsie McLeod Jury 4.3(1948):
159-65
Steamboats out of Buffalo by Elizabeth Chapin 10.2(1954): 102-10;
10.3(1954): 163-70; 11.3(1955): 195-202
Steamship service to Cedar Point, 1870-1952 by David W. Francis
33.2(1977): 106-12; 33.3(1977): 184-91
Stone Lab by Carol Johnson - located on Lake Erie's Gilbralter
Island 53.3(1997): 237-38
Strong are the ties by M. Mansfield Stimson - about the Detroit
River from 1812 to 1950s 8.2(1952): 83-89
Supplement to "Names on the Lakes" 14.2(1958): 150-51
Tale of the Twin cities by Bert C. Brennan about St Joseph, MI
11.3(1955): 175-80; 11.4(1955): 256-62
Teacher: A story of Middle Bass Island by Theodore N. Ferris,
Jr. 30.3(1974): 186-88, 197-98
Their greatness touched the land by Fred Landon - about western
Ontario 25.1(1969): 3-11
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- Toledo Yacht Club 15.2(1959): 154-55
Toronto Marine Museum 13.3(1957): 238
Tragedy of Mott Island - The story of Angelique and Charlie Mott
by Dennis Glen Cooper 3.1(1947): 17-20
Trapped under the lake by Edward J.McHugh - about Cleveland's
Waterworks in 1916 50.2(1994): 123-28
Twin bulk cargo facilities planned for Superior, Wisconsin 30.3(1974):
206
United States shipyard on the River Rouge (part 1) by F. Clever
Bald 3.1(1947): 3-7; 3.2(1947): 71-75
Vermilion: A Lake Superior ghost town by Janice H. Gerred 30.1(1974):
48-49
Washington Island, WI 2.4(1946): 280
Washington planned a port by S. J. Kelly - about Cleveland, OH
11.1(1955): 62-63
Water Street Oswego, New York by Richard F. Palmer 42.1(1986):
34-39
Whalesback Rock by W. R. Williams (Georgian Bay) 23.1(1967):
33-34
When Chicago was young - a letter written in 1902 33.3(1977):
252-53
When Sir John A. put his foot down by W. Sherwood Fox - about
the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario 11.1(1955): 3-9; 11.2(1955): 103-110
When the Irish sailormen of Beaver go down to the sea by George
H. Archer - about Beaver Island 26.2(1970): 147-51