Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Montreal Gazette Tuesday, 15 September 1931 Old Lake Captain Dies Oakville, Ont., September 14. - CAPTAIN JAMES QUINN, one of the last of the old Great Lakes captains, died here today at the residence of his sister, Miss HANNAH QUINN, after a lingering illness. He was 75 years of age. CAPTAIN QUINN passed away in the house where he was born, and which had been built by his father. He began sailing 55 years ago on the schooner Baltic, and his first trip was from the port of Oakville in Oswego. He was mate under CAPTAIN HIRAM WILLIAMS and became later the owner of several vessels. He sailed from Duluth to Cape Breton. ===========================================================================