The Grand River York

Goods Passing Through the Navigation

Goods for which the company recorded the quantities for toll purposes included:

Wheat (bushels), Flour (barrels), Pork (barrels), Whiskey & Beer (barrels), Salt (barrels), Plaster of Paris (tons), Sq. Pine & Sq. Oak (Cu. Ft.), Saw Logs ~ Pine & Oak (number), Sawn Lumber (feet), Staves (Pipe & West India - number).

Ashes, Potatoes, Turnips, Pig Iron, Stone, Castings,
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Firkins, Small Casks, Packages, Lime, Charcoal, Fire Wood (per cord), Shingles.

Vessels for which there were set rates of toll:

Steamboats, Barges, Scows, Boats, &  Passenger tolls.  Any canoe with a cargo, using the Navigation for domestic or agricultural purposes, passed free of Tolls -- but the cargo was subject to the Toll.

~ Bruce Emerson Hill, The Grand River Navigation Company, Brant Historical Society. 1994.