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Monarch, paddle steamer, foundered on Toronto Island 29 November 1856

Monarch, paddle steamer, foundered on Toronto Island 29 November 1856
Year/Format: 1856, Picture
Medium: Copy photograph (col. with water colour) from photograph by Armstrong Beere & Hime
Date: 30 December 1856
Notes: 1856 Dec 30
Inscribed in the photograph (this inscription being traced over in ink) l.r.: Decr. 30. 56.
Numerals inscribed on photograph refer to separate printed JRR key to figures.
Printed JRR caption states the picture (described in the JRR catalogue as a water colour) is by William Armstrong.
The 'Monarch' wreck was on the south side of the Islands, west of the present Eastern gap.
Rights and Licenses: Public Domain
Contributor: Armstrong, Beere & Hime, attributed to
Branch Location Call Number / Accession Number
Toronto Reference Library Baldwin Room JRR 923 Cab I