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Thousand
Islands Life, the regional overview, provides probably the
most comprehensive resource for information about the
St. Lawrence River, from Cape Vincent and Kingston on
Lake Ontario to Brockville and Morristown, fifty miles
down the river. The web site is huge, providing information
about twenty-two communities and other subjects. Exploration
of the layered material should prove rewarding. |
The Magazine,
Contents
April, 2008
Rediscovering Fort Haldimand
compiled by Mike Franklin
Joseph and Molly Brant
Custodian of Character: Trude Brown Fitelson
Perfecting a Place: Thousand Island Park
Pisces Redux VI: Bass
April Kayaking
Photography: Recent Work of Dudley Danielson
More Aerial Photographs by Bill Hecht
Updated Database of Island Names
Reader Exchange
Archive, March 2008
Cover Illustration
Eyeing the Islands:
Two Early Centuries
Two Recent Centuries
The Folgers' Great White Squadron
The Folgers and the Steamboat War
Decline and the End of the Age of Steam
A Steamboat Tour
Festival of Lights
Kingston's Folger Brothers
Concours d'Elegance
Ian Coristine
Pisces Redux V: Northern Pike
Gananoque Inn
Photography: Pete Medcalf
Aerial Photographs by Bill Hecht
Where Have All the Shorelines Gone?
Bud Andress
Reader Exchange
Audio Files
Archive, February, 2008
Cover Illustration
Ghosts of Fort Henry:
Nils von Schoultz
The Syracuse Cohort
John A. Macdonald
Causes and Consequences
Mackenzie King
The Human Face
Landmark Significance
Sources
Photography: Recent River Images by Patty Mondore
Thousand Islands Artist: Alfred Worsley Holdstock
Island
Names Updated: Ross D. Pollack's Project
Pisces Redux IV: Elusive Eels
Aerial Infared Photographs
Reader Exchange
Archive, January 2008
Cover Illustration
Pisces Redux:
Carp
Muskies
Sturgeon
What You Can Do For
Your Place: Vince Dee Remembered
Capt. Jim's Hubbard
House
Sinking
a Scuba Mecca
Ian
Coristine's Galleries
New Gananoque Boat Museum?
Forgotten
Architect: John B. Williams, Clayton, N.Y.
Photography:
Recent River Images by Kathy Kempson
Island
Names Updated: Ross D. Pollack's Project
Low Water
Archive,
2007
Cover
Illustration
River
Renaissance
Party
of the Century
and
Historic
Post Cards
Important
New Book
Historic
Books Online
Original
River Houseboat
When
is a Ship Not a Ship?
Historic
Photograph Exhibition
Veracity,
or "Truth in Advertising"
Island
Names: Ross D. Pollack's Project
Calumet
Castle: Rex Ennis's Book Project
Photography:
Stephanie Woods' Brockville
New
Publication Wins International Design Award
Archive, 2006
"Carleton
Villa Life," historic family photographs from Elizabeth
Wyckoff Balderston
"Carleton
Villa," by Paul Malo, photographs by Ian Coristine and
Mike Franklin
"Carleton
Villa, an Ideal Summer Home," by John A. Haddock
"An
International Park?" by Paul Malo
"Clayton
Opens Up," by Paul Malo
The Regional
Overview, Contents
The lower title image, above,
shows Lost Channel. The name recalls an event during the French
and Indian War (1754-1763). Two years after destroying Fort
Frontenac at modern Kingston, the British launched a campaign
to attack the French on the St. Lawrence below modern Brockville.
An account of the larger campaign in this region appears online.
[Franklin
B. Hough, The Thousand Islands of River St. Lawrence,
Syracuse NY: Davis, Bardeen & Co., 1880, pp.38-43].
The incident that gave "Lost
Channel" its name occurred on August 14th, 1760. An advance
party of two vessels took this route downstream, commanded by
Capt. John Loring. He was in the lead, some distance ahead in
the British warship HMS Onondaga, which was strafed by French
and Indian attackers. Captain Loring sent a small boat and crew
to row back to warn the HMS Mohawk which was following. When
the small warning boat and crew did not return, another small
boat was sent to search for them. Not only were the searchers
unable to find the missing party, but they were unable to relocate
even the place where its boat had been lowered. This account
appears online and provides a verbatim account of the episode
from Capt. Loring's journal.
[John
A. Haddock, The Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence
River from Kingston and Cape Vincent to Morristown and
Brockville. Alexandria Bay, NY: John A. Haddock,
1895, pp. 179-180.]
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