{"id":8534,"date":"2021-04-16T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2021-04-16T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:37:52","slug":"episode-312-burning-of-the-p-e-young-retired-stohehooker-at-sunnyside-beach-in-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8534","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 312 BURNING OF THE P.E. YOUNG, RETIRED STOHEHOOKER, AT SUNNYSIDE BEACH IN THE 1930’S"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE  312:  BURNING OF THE P.E.YOUNG AT SUNNYSIDE IN  1930\u2019S<\/p>\n

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The P.E. Young was quite a graceful schooner in her prime.  She was built on Lake Erie to ferry goods back and forth<\/div>\n
to and from the United States and Canadian Great Lakes ports.  Grain, lumber, etc.   Whisky was a big trade good carried<\/div>\n
on schooners.   Grain distilled into whisky was easier to handle and more profitable than grain.  It is likely that<\/div>\n
the P.E. Young  made money for its owners.  She was motorized with a 16 cylinder engine that could go 50 miles<\/div>\n
per Hour.  This would seem to place her in the rumrunning trade.  With that motor she could outrun some of<\/div>\n
the American border patrol boats.   <\/div>\n

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 Eventually, however, she was  no longer wanted.  Everyone knew Her days were numbered when she was sold<\/div>\n
to a stonehooker in Port Credit, Ontario.  Stonehooking was a rough business.  Great slabs of Port Credit  blue shale<\/div>\n
were hooked with an iron rake, loaded onto small skiffs and reloaded onto old schooners to be sold to builders<\/div>\n
as foundations for Toronto buildings.   The new owner renamed her \u2018Paddy\u2019 and immediately cut her keel lengthwise<\/div>\n
to give her a flat bottom.  That way she could get in close to shore where the stonehooking was easier.<\/div>\n

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Her death was fast but not painless.  Some citizens protested but most citizens enjoyed the spectacle that sealed her fate.<\/div>\n
 She was loaded  with explosives and  sailed to waters offshore of Sunnyside Beach,<\/div>\n
Toronto and set afire as entertainment for visitors to the Canadian Natonal Exhibition.  She was considered a memorial<\/div>\n
to the United  States navel ship Maine which was lost in the Spanish American war.<\/div>\n

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No one seems to have recorded her demise.  Assume sometime in the 1930\u2019s when the burning of schooners at<\/div>\n
Sunnyside was regular entertainment for as many as 50,000 people.<\/div>\n

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NOTE:  I HAVE ASSUMED THE P.E. YOUNG WAS A FEMALE NAMED SHIP.  IT WAS CUSTOMARY TO <\/div>\n
USE FEMALE NAMES FOR STONEHOOKERS WHICH WAS NOT REALLY CONSIDERED FLATTERING.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE  312:  BURNING OF THE P.E.YOUNG AT SUNNYSIDE IN  1930\u2019S alan skeoch April  2021 The P.E. Young was quite a graceful schooner in her prime.  She was built on Lake Erie to ferry goods back and forth to and from the United States and Canadian Great Lakes ports.  Grain, lumber, etc.   Whisky was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}