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Nice image of the steamship "Chippewa" docked on Lake Ontario, passengers boarding.
Steamer Chippewa, Niagara Falls to Toronto
No publisher name, card has 'A-9338' on back.
Unused.
Crease and chip LR corner. Small chips other corners, little on top edge. Toning around edges on back
The Niagara Navigation Company’s swift fleet made the two-hour voyage between Toronto, Niagara-on-the-Lake, and Lewiston, New York, six times daily. The fleet included the Chicora, Cibola, Corona, but the most popular and enduring of the company’s vessels—and its grandest—were the Chippewa and the Cayuga.
Sitting in the open breeze on one of the benches on the Chippewa‘s hurricane deck—the topmost of her three passenger decks—playing cards with fellow passengers, or watching the scenery, proved a pleasing alternative to the scorching summer heat in Toronto. The Niagara Navigation Company, an advertisement in an 1893 guidebook claimed, was “the only line giving views of Falls, Rapids, Brock’s Monument and all the romantic scenery of the Lower Niagara.” At Niagara-on-the-Lake and Lewiston, passengers could connect by railway for excursions to the Falls, Buffalo, or further afield.
At the peak of the summer season, as many 26,000 passengers travelled the route each day. For generations of Torontonians, such Saturday steamer excursions were a cherished summer tradition.
https://torontoist.com/2012/07/historicist-summer-cruising-to-niagara/
