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The ''Ongiara'' was a
The ''Ongiara'' was a steamboat
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that served most of her 33 year lifetime as a ferry on the Niagara River
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She was built in Toronto by Melancthon Simpson
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, and commissioned in 1885 as the ''Queen City''.
In 1888 she was sold to the Niagara Transportation Company
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which renamed her the ''Ongiara'' and started using her as a ferry passengers across the Niagara River
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, between Queenston, Ontario
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and Lewiston, New York.
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In 1912 she was sold and employed as a tow-boat in Toronto. Finally she was sunk off Bowmanville, Ontario in 1918.
See also
*Onigara (ferry boat)
The ''Ongiara'' is a -year-old Toronto Island ferry operated by the Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division of the City of Toronto government. The ferry serves the Toronto Islands from a dock at Jack Layton Ferry Terminal in downtown Toront ...
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