The Goderich Signal-Star, 1955-07-21, Page 11Goderich's second
elevator burned in 1905
Down through the years, in clear, sunny weather and on cold, icy 'days, the grain carrying ships have brought their cargoes
safely into Goderich Harbor from the Lakehead.•1,, Here an ice -coated grain carrier is seen in Goderich Harbor ,after fighting
.its way through a winter storm on December 20, 1907. ,
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Goderich Harbor back- in 1866, as shown 'above, stands in sharp contrast to what'it looks like today. Seen at the left is the old wooden
60,000 bushel capacity elevator, first built here, at the foot of Harbor Hill on the Buffalo and Lake Huron,. Railway, later the Grand Trunk
Railway.
About 800,000,000 Bushels r rIfnawftege Transportation C rtipany
• 800,000,000 Bushels
Gram. Have Since 1866, f cultto visualize just how much
P�ued Th ro' Local Elevators grain is 800,000,000 bushels. For
I this reason the .Signal -Star has fig-
ured out its equivalent in freight
trains carrying grain., A total o
800,000,000 bushels of grain woul
mean a freight train of modern
day cars (each carrying 2,000 bush-
els) stretching from Halifax clear
across Canada to Vancouver, ex-
cept for • a distance of about 294
miles. From Halifax to Vancouver
is 3,475 miles.
Another way to visualize it
would be in boatloads the size of
the Bricoldoc, placed end to end
in one straight line. If this were
done -there would be a line of
Bricold.ocs for a distance of 217
miles. There would be 2,666 such
...boatloads._The. Bricoldo.c_carries
about 300,000 bushels and is some
430 feet in length.
the old 60,000 bushel capacity. To see. at first hand this
Since 1866 I grain carrying trade, the writ -
First ship tp bring in grail! to
When the Bricoldoc discharges Goderich's second'elevator was the - er•' of this art+i the
made the
tier cargo at the Goderich 'Eleva- Seguin, carrying' 40,000' bushels. round trip S.S.the Lakehead
tors still another chapter will have aboard the .SBricoldoc, as a
p Another Fire guest of N. M. Paterson and
been written in the comparatively Sons Limited, Fort William,
long history of carrying grain to But along came another disast- one of Canada's outstanding
Goderich from the Utpper Lakes. It rous fire in 1905 and wiped out shipping firms. This firm has
this elevator. Thousands of bush- "a fleet of 36 beats, four or five
started away back in 1866 when els of grain smouldered on the of which .are at present engag-
a /wooden elevator with a capacityed in the grain carrying trade
of 60,000 bushels was built at the wharf at Goderich. Rumor thong; {now hi a temporary slump
foot of Harbor Hill on the Buffalo ers . were active ill those days, because 'of the fall-off in the
and Lake Huron Railway, • later too, and soon the story was going export business, European
known as'. tfie Grand Trunk Rail- the rounds that "Canadian wheat, countries willing to pay only
way. But at that time -89 years toastedby fire, soaked by water, a fraction of what the grain
ago—the grain shipped to Gode- would , show up some day in rest- is considered worth) and the
rich was from Chicago and it was aurants. on the other side of the rest in the definitely active
1.carried in schooners' with capac- rt 'orld labelled as `coffee'." ore carrying and pulpwood
ities from. 10,000 to 26,000 bushels. In 1905 construction started on shipping trades.
The freight trains which trans- the first section of the CONCRETE it is interesting to ,,note that
ported this grain from the Gode grain elevators that are today a each of the Paterson boats is
rich Elevators to the New England part of the present Goderich Elev- named with the letters "doc" at
States were made up of a light ator and Transit Company Limit- the end, of it. Boats such, as
"locomotive" which drew three ed. The capacity was 590,000 the Kenordoc, Novadoc, Newbrun-
loaded cars, each car having a bushels. As the flovtr of graih from doc, Sarniadoc, Bricoldoc, Sa.•ska-
capacity of 500 bushels. On the the ':Lakehead increased and he doc, etc., etc. The names of the
hind endwas an ancient passenger Western Ontario domestic market ships are derived frtrm an ab -
van. This was in sharp contrast and export business widened, it breviation of the names of pro -
to the grain trains out of Goderich was found necessary to increase vinces and cities in : Canada, to
in recent years, some of which the size of the Goderich Elevators. which is added ",doc" which stands
are composed of 'over 30 freight In 1907 a 500,000 bushel capacity for the Dominion of Canada. For
cars, each having a capacity of storage. annex was added. Again instance, the Bricoldoc is named
x,000 bushels.: in -1923 a -battery of grain elevator after the province of British. Col -
About 1880 the picture bins with a capacity for a million umtbia.
changed. The number.of ves- ^ . bushels was built. The same year
sets bringing United States saw a Marine shipping tower Brings Most Grain
grain from Chicago, started to erected. No more suitable boat might be
fall off. Instead, the flow com- In 1929, when the stock found to travel' on than the Brxi-
mencerd to the East of the fine market crash heralded the coldoc since in the nearly 90
quality grain from the"",fertile approach of the big depres- years of carrying grain into Gode-
prairiesof Western Canada. moil, another batter . of grain rich probably no other boat • has
Canadian grain elevators at elevator bins was, built with a • carried as much grain into Gode-
the. Lakehead rapidly iltcreas •capacity for a million^ bushels. • rich as has the Bricoldoc. — It
ed in numbers to handle the In the same year a third mar- has seen nearly 30 years of ser -
steady stream of. gain ship- ine leg was added. This now vice in the grain carrying trade.
.:vents from the Canadian, gave the Goderich Elevators ,Bui'It at West Supero Wisconsin,
West for transportation .down a total capacity for three mil- in 1902, it was -purchased by Pater -
the Great Lakes. . lion bushels of grain.. 'son in 1929 anti fitted- out- for the
Just when the old wooden' eleYv- Since that distant day' "in 1866, grain. tarrying trade.
ator at Goderich was "starting t" :When /the first'grain shipped to Skipper of the•. Bricoldoe is
do a booming business trans -s fpr. +Soder ich came in. from Chicago, a Goderich man, Capt. C. E.
ping grain from the Canadian up to the present time; the col- "Charlie" Robinson. . Rated
West, it burned to theground approximately , highs as a navigator in Great
1897. The very nfext' year, i itrw`- ,800,000,000 in, ossal to al of ..bushels of, grain have takes shipping circles, Capt%.
ever, work started, en ,the ieon,; been handled by grain ele rators Robinson comes by this • dig
T.:• strution of another' elevat+ ►r}t Only at 'i aoderieh. This, . includes , Ship- .tinction, deservedly 'for he is
this time it .was one With a Cilia -/Vents . lsd to the "Big Mill, now the fourth generation of his
city for 500,000_ bushels instead of ' known as 'the Upper Lakes and St. family to be numbered among
(By George L. Ellis)
ABOARD S.S. BRICOLDOC, ' JULY 14: It's a clear, sunny
day and although the Bricoldoc is still 15 miles . out in Lake
Huron, heading for Goderich Harbor, the outline of the
Goderich Elevators is visible in the distance. On some clear
days the Elevators can be seen when the boat is even 3'0 tniles
from the Harbor. Methodically plowing through' the placid
lake, the Bricoldoc rides low in the water as she carries more
than 300,000 bushels of grain from Port Arthur and Fort
William destined for the Goderich Elevator and,. Transit
Company Limited. We are scheduled to dock at Goderich
about five o'clock this Thursday afternoon, after having
sailed from Goderich the pireceding Friday afternoon for the
round trip to "The Head."
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"They that go down to the
sea in ships, that do business
in great waters." His father,
the late Capt. Eddie Robinson,
was Commodore of the fleet of
Canada, Steamship Lines and
for many years sailed the
Great * Lakes and also the At-
lantic coastal waters. His
^a '
grandfather also sailed the
Great Lakes and his great-
grandfather served on the
"bounding main" out of Eng-
land.
Founder of the Great Lakes
shipping empire that is N. M. Pat-
erson and Sons Limited is an
outstanding Canadian — a self-
made . roan who has reached the
top of the ladder of success from
the bottom rungs by his remark-
able vision and his capacity for
hard work: He is Senator Norman
M. Paterson, who although he now
resides in Ottawa most of the time,
keeps a guidinghand_on the firm'
'affairs -1Y coirtrot:""_.....
staunch believer in the necessity
for proper discipline for true de-
velopment, he allowed no favorit-
ism to be shown nor short cuts
given to his two sons as they
learned their father's business.
They were put through the paces
of the -various phases of the busi-
ness in the same manner as any
other employee,. Today the Jens,
John Paterson at Fort William,
and.Donald Paterson at Winnipeg
hold executive positions in ''the
Company, Handling the .import-
ant directions for the' comings and
goings of the fleet with the work
in conjunction with this is C. G.
Hacquoil, of Fort William, manag-
er of the steamship division of
the Paterson Company.
lot Weather
The temperature was hovering
around the 90 mark when the
Bricoldoc slipped out of Goderich
harbor at 5 p.m., on Friday, July
8, for Port Arthur. • Once out on
the 'lake the cooling breezes soon
made us forget the heat wave and
the many bothersome details 'that
wear one down in, the high-pres-
sure strain of putting out a news-
papervgeek after Week.
We were always under the im-
pression that • sailors worked • hard
but on the surface, at least, it
looks a cinch in comparison to
Work involved in getting out a
weekly newspaper. However, we
have to admit there are at least
- two jobs on t .boat that don't
look easy. OnVis is in the ship's
galley where the woman cooik and
woman waitress seem to be always
serving a' areal or getting ready
for the next one. The other one
is shoveling ooal into the big hun-
.gry furnaces.
No one need ever go hungry
ori. a Paterson boat. The meals
seared the crew are varied
and the amount is seemingly
endless. We present figures
of one . month's consumption
of food „ as. follows: a whole
:tion^+of meat, fish :and jpqulf'rj►;
nearly 400 •:loaves of bread;
25 bags of potatoes; 200 gal -
Ions of milk,; 325 dozen eggs;
(Continued on page 10)
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year the 'Canadian automobile in-
dustry produced 206,817 vehicles
for sale in Canada. In the period
sales and excise taxes remitted to
the federal government totalled
$80,656,497 and payroll was
$68,5+52,716.
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