HomeMy WebLinkAboutStonehooking off Bronte."Stonehooking off Bronte"
This photo shows one of a fleet of schooners knows as
'Stonehookens , which once operated beween Port
Whitby and Pon Credit. Duf m the late 190 Century
these vessels provided building materials for the
Vowing city of Toronto by gathering or "hooking"
large stones form the inshore lake bottom. Seen to the
heft of the schooper is a barge uPon which two men are
wing stories with a winch. While this picture was
not
moor w Pickering, it is so typical of the wade, it may
is well have been.