The First Eras of Canoe and Sail.

The First Steamboats on Lake Ontario and the Niagara River.

More Steamboats and Early Water Routes.

The River the Centre of Through Travel.

Expansion of Steamboating on the Niagara—its Decline—a Final Flash and a Move To the North.

Flour, per barrel, Toronto to New York—

On the Upper Lakes With the Wolseley Expedition and Lord Dufferin.

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A Novel Idea and a New Venture—Buffalo in Sailingship Days—A Risky Passage.

Down Through the Welland—The Miseries of Horse Towing Times—Port Dalhousie and a Lake Veteran—The Problem Solved—Toronto at Last.

The Niagara Portal—History of Names at Newark and Niagara—A Winter of Changes—A New Rivalry Begun.

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.

Change Partner—Rate Cutting and Racing—Hanlan and Toronto Waterside—Passenger Limitation Introduced.

Niagara Camps Formed—more Changes and Competition—Beginnings of Railroads in New York State—Early Passenger Men and Passenger Ways.

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First Railways at Lewiston—expansion Required—The Renown of the "Let Her B"—A Critic of Plimsoll.

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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.

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE ON THE LET HER B.—AS TOLD BY HER CAPTAIN-OWNER.

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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.

"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.

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."