Lachine Accident

I love the first paragraph,.everyone will tell you they loved the ride,but essentially truth be known they'd have to be nuts & nervous until the ride got back into calmer waters........hahahahahahaha 

The Lachine Accident

May 18, 1873, Wednesday

Every tourist who has visited Canada has shot the Lachine Rapids and pretended afterward that he greatly enjoyed it. In point of fact, unless he was totally devoid of nerves he was wretchedly uncomfortable until he had safeiy reached smooth water. That the trip is an exceedingly dangerous one is susceptible of easy demonstration.

........and again the whole story available at this link:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04E4D7173AE63BBC4052DFB3668388669FDE   

                                                have fun and remember verdun

"AGAIN" Steamer on Rocks

this story is from July 1922,.seems the Steamers were getting larger,this one had 400 passengers on board,......Imagine being stuck in the Rapids overnight,with the contant punding ,rushing,turbulent ,rapids rushing past the Ship........all night.What do you think the chances were that many passengers decided to 'get a good nights sleep' -

                                   YIKES ..............................................................

STEAMER ON ROCKS; 400 KEPT ON BOARD; Canadian Excursionists Spend Night on Craft Which Had Just Shot Lachine Rapids July 31, 1922, Monday

MONTREAL, July 30.--Four hundred passengers were forced to spend the night on the excursion steamer Rapids Prince when she went on the rocks below Lachine Rapids tonight.

.again you can read the whole story at this link ,if you like:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9802E3D81239EF3ABC4950DFB1668389639EDE   

                                         Have Fun & Remember Verdun

Steamer Stuck in the Rapids

It looks like a few steamers did get stuck in the Rapids,...but here's a story from the NYTimes archives ,about a Steamer named the L.Renaud which got trapped in the Rapids & people in canoes wanted to'extort' them .....Nice to see the good in Humanity existed even in those times......................

Wreck of the Steamer Renaud in the Lachine Rapids with 150 Passengers on Board-How They Escaped Extortion of the Canoe People

May 17, 1873, Wednesday

The steamer L. Renaud left Cornwall on Monday morning at 5 o'clock, to make her usual trip to Montreal, touching at Beauharnois and other points. She had on board from 125 to 150 passengers, and when she neared the famed Lachine Rapids the decks were crowded in anticipated excitement of the "shooting."

............you can read the 'rest of the storey' (as old Paul Harvey would have said)

here at this link:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980DEFD8173AE63BBC4F52DFB3668388669FDE  

                    you can read the whole article ,using Adobe Reader...... HF&RV