Barley Days on Lake Ontario

A Respected Lake Captain and the ships he sailed to Oswego with Barley

This article is about Captain Shaw of Kingston and the schooners he sailed in the barley trade along the shores of Lake Ontario. Below are excerpts from the Toronto newspaper and he is pictured in the insert.

This project was developed by Isabel Slone (one of the Society's 2007 "summer students") and was in part funded with a grant from Young Canada Works, in part with a grant from the Municipality of the County of Prince Edward, and in part with this Society's research funds.