The Steamer Brockville

The Brockville could carry 375 passengers and was often used for excursions during her 20-year career in the Bay of Quinte.

Most of the photographs of her at the Community Archives were taken at tourist destinations such as Massassauga Point and the Sandbanks in Prince Edward County and Twelve O’Clock Point near Trenton. William James Topley, a photographer from Ottawa, took the image below at the harbour in Belleville in 1911.

The ship was eventually stripped down and abandoned in Hamilton in the 1930s. M. S. Macgillivray reported in 1979 that the remains of the Brockville were still visible from the Burlington Skyway Bridge in that year. 

[For further information on this steamship, we recommend reading a detailed article on the Brockville which was published in the Toronto Marine Historical Society's publication The Scanner in November 1998.]