Hello out there Does the good ship 'Ontario' ring a bell with anyone? Cheers Hugh Gillies

That's a fairly 'broad' question Hugh :) This is but one reference to a ship named "Ontario" from http://www.acay.com.au/~gsm/Ontario1852.html The Ontario was built in Quebec in 1851 for George Provost, a Liverpool merchant. It was a ship of 598 tons unladen (burthen 694 tons), had 2 decks + a poop. Length was 125.7 feet, breadth 29.3 feet, depth in hold 20.7 feet. It was a barque sailing vessel, that is, three-masted, standing bowsprit, square rigged, carvel built, no galleries and with a woman's figurhead in the bows. The frame work and planking were of wood and she was registered in Liverpool 1 July, 1852. The ship was registered to carry 273 immigrants, however, she sailed for NSW from Liverpool on 3 August, 1852 with 309 Scottish immigrants from Skye and one other passenger (plus 300 tons of coal, 20 tons of salt, and other cargo). It was her maiden voyage. The Master's name was Jonathan Jackson. He died on the voyage, of typhus fever/typhoid, which also killed 36 passengers and 2 other crew by the time the ship reached Sydney. The fever struck one month out of Liverpool. 170 cases of it (more than half those on board!) were reported by the surgeon superintendent Thomas Barker M.D., when the ship arrived at Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) on 26th November, 1852. The ship was kept in quarrantine until 15th December, during which time a further 8 people died of the disease and were buried at North Head Quarantine Cemetery. The ship's NSW arrival documents can be found on NSW Government Archives Authority Microfilm reel no. 2136. It may, or may not, be the one, but without more details ..... ? An interesting link all the same. Regards, Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Dangar Gillies" <silverronin@bigpond.com> Subject: [H,H,HV] Ontario > Hello out there > Does the good ship 'Ontario' ring a bell with anyone? Cheers > Hugh Gillies