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Early Images of Port Colborne: Stereoscopic Views from the late 1870s
Tallships, Tugs & Trawlers: Model Ships
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Photo of inner lighthouse, with outer lighthouse in the background.
Article from The Tribune, September 8th, 1971, which talks about the complains of the new automatic foghorn installed.
Article from the Port Colborne Times, November 28, 1907, about the completed steel frame construction of the new east side lighthouse.
Photo of Outer Lighthouse after its recent construction on the new south-west breakwater.
Excerpt from the Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada: volume 7, 1891, about the new main lighthouse built in 1890.
Excerpt from a Report by W. H. Smith Deputy Minister of Marine a Fisheries, 1 Jan 1878, Sessional Papers, 1878, which described the previous ...
Excerpt from the Appendix to the tenth volume of the journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1851, regarding the new ...
Article from the Cincinnati Weekly Herald and Philanthropist, 30 Oct 1844 about the gale which destroyed Gravelly Bay's pier and lighthouse.
Excerpt from the Appendix to Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, 1839, regarding damage to the Port Colborne pier and lighthouse from a ...
Excerpt from Report of the Engineer appointed to examine the works upon the Welland Canal, 1835, which described the Gravelly Bay lighthouse ...
Excerpt from the Appendix to Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada re: Thomas Merritt and Thomas McChesney being responsible for erecting ...
Inner lighthouse on west breakwater with gathering of people standing and docking boats on breakwater.
Photo of the Inner Lighthouse with the advanced living quarters.
The west breakwater with the inner and outer lighthouses, soon after the addition of the southwest extension and outer lighthouse
West breakwater, main lighthouse, and construction of new extension
An map of Gravelly Bay, and Port Colborne harbour drawn by canal engineer, H. H. Killaly, illustrating proposed plans for new pier extensions and a ...
Illustration of Port Colborne harbour and the southern terminus of the Welland Canal during the second canal era, c.1881. The west pier and ...
East side range light located near the corner of Fares St. and Lake Rd.
Photo of main (inner) lighthouse built on the west breakwater. Original photo is slightly blurry.
Photo of the Port Colborne harbour and Gravelly Bay, the Welland Canal southern terminus on Lake Erie, during the third canal era. The current ...
This stereoscopic view depicts the entrance to the lock of the Second Welland Canal, and East St. in Port Colborne in the late 1870s. The photo was ...
This stereoscopic view shows the excavation for the new weir channel for the Third Welland Canal along West St. in Port Colborne between 1876 and ...
This stereoscopic view depicts the excavations for the new lock at Port Colborne for the Third Welland Canal between 1876 and 1880. The photo was ...
This stereoscopic view shows the steamship Garden City moving downbound (northbound) into the Second Welland Canal lock at Port Colborne between 1876 ...
This stereoscopic view, taken between 1876 and 1880, shows part of the excavation for the new lock of the Third Welland Canal in the foreground, with ...
This stereoscopic view of the Port Colborne harbour from the late 1870s depicts several vessels. Taken looking southeast from West St., it shows the ...
This stereoscopic view shows a ship and a tug headed downbound (northbound) in the lock at Port Colborne, with the lock gates closed. Taken from the ...
This stereoscopic view depicts several ships in the Port Colborne harbour between 1876 and 1880. The photo was taken from the west harbour wall ...
This stereoscopic view depicts two steamships and one sailing vessel tied up on the west side of the Port Colborne harbour. The photographer was ...
This stereoscopic view depicts a sailing ship tied up on the west harbour wall in Port Colborne, just south of the guard lock of the Second Welland ...
A black and white photograph of a timber building standing in an empty plot of land. There is damage to the roof of the shed. This building is the ...
A black and white photograph of two men in a log cabin. They are sitting side by side and staring directly at the camera. Text on the back of the ...
