Photographs taken by Samuel Martindale (404400)

En route from Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON to Plymouth, England, August 16-28, 1915

(The first 2 photos were taken aboard the Corona, the rest while aboard the R.M.S Hesperian)

Text in italics was written by Samuel on the back of the photographs ... any text I have added is in brackets

Niagara-on-the-Lake

August/16/15

(This photo was taken while on board the Corona, a Lake Ontario side-wheel steamer, from Niagara to Montreal)

The Port of Montreal

(Le Progres was a ferry built in 1914 by George T. Davie & Sons, Ltd. and worked the St. Lawrence River until 1966.)

A steel bridge being built across the St. Lawrence

(This is the Pont de Quebec (Quebec Bridge) in Quebec City, completed in 1917 and is the longest cantilever span ever built (549m/3,239ft))

City of Quebec on the St. Lawrence

(This is the steamship 'Quebec' operated by the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company)

St. Levis

(Could possibly be the freighter 'Tacoma')

Two derricks at St. Levis on St. Lawrence

Our escort thru the Gulf

(This is the H.M.C.S. Grilse, a patrol/torpedo boat of the Royal Canadian Navy that operated on the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence)

Leaving dock at Niagara,

Lake Ontario

(The Corona was operated by the Canada Steamship Lines and operated on the Great Lakes until the 1920's)