I recently posted that I couldn't find any steamboat schedules for Lake Erie for 1834. On further research I found the following timetable for service between Goderich, Sandwich and Buffalo for 1836. The service may have been the same in 1834; however I always warn researchers that transport was changing very quickly and the standard route for one year may be quite obsolete the next. This was primarily a service between Goderich and Sandwich, with occasional continuations to Buffalo. There were other steamers between Buffalo and Detroit/Sandwich. Canadian Emigrant, Sandwich [Windsor] U.C. August 2, 1836 THE CANADA COMPANY'S Steamboat Menissitunk, commanded by Captain Wright, R.N., will sail during the present season between Goderich, Sandwich, and Buffalo, on the following dates, touching at Port Stanley on each route through Lake Erie. Goderich to Sandwich at 1 A.M. June 6, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29 July 5, 9, 13, 16, 20, 27, 30 Aug. 3, 6, 10, 17, 20, 24, 27, 31 Sept, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 25 Goderich to Buffalo at 1 P.M. June 6, 29 July 30 August 10, 41 [31?] Sept. 21 [and similar dates for Buffalo - Sandwich - Goderich] For Passage and Freight apply to the Captain on board Canada Company's Office Toronto 1st June 1836 This is the first reference I have seen to the Canada Company operating a steamboat. The name Menissitunk, was quite clear in the newspaper but Google doesn't know the name. I found a reference to a steamer called Minnitunk, which I think is the same one, and another reference to the Minnesetung, also the same one! Minnesetung, 250 tons, built Goderich 1834, sunk at Malden 1839, raised and renamed Goderich. History of the Great Lakes. Volume I : List of Lake Vessels http://www.halinet.on.ca/GreatLakes/Documents/HGL/default.asp The name was apparently Indian, meaning "water with islands in it". -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------