Loss of the 'Provincial', Royal Canadian Yacht Club Club-House, Toronto, Ontario

Inscribed l.r.: Wm. Armstrong / 1909 [?]; On verso of former mount: Loss of [cropped] / 1868 [corrected in a later hand to 1869]  Looking north west; foot of Simcoe St. at extreme right; G.T.R. Elevator & behind it Northern Railway Elevator in background.  Key on lower part of former mat.  Former mount and part of former mat bearing key in Accession File.   

JRR (1912) 479.  

Rev. November 1981

736-WINTER SCENE ON TORONTO BAY, 1869-Showing wreck of old "Provincial," formerly a freight steamer. She was sold to the R.C.Y.C. in 1860, fitted up as a clubhouse, and moored on the bay shore near the foot of Simcoe street. In the winter of 1869 she broke away from her moorings and was frozen in the bay, becoming a wreck, which was blown up by order of the Corporation. Water color by Wm. Armstrong, C.E., Toronto. Size 9 x 13.