barge

noun, a long flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight, etc. (COD); see also coal barge, invasion barge, landing barge, tow barge

“They would get big barges and float cows across.”

“He had two or three tugs and lighter barges and so on. “

“At the time our ferry was condemned, so they brought two barges here until we got another ferry.”

“I always heard that they brought all the stone from Carleton Island on a barge.”

“Most of the time there were six people on the barge.”

“He went on the barges. Yeah, he went on the barges … There was an older gentleman on the barges.”

“But anyways, he had two tugs and four or five barges at one time, and he made quite a name for himself in the marine salvage business because there were a lot of boats on the water that ran aground and things like that.”

“Well, one winter the ice was no good, so what they did, they had all this hay pressed up, and my grandfather bought a little barge and a tug and ran it up on the shore at the end, at the concession roads, and farmers’d load the hay on, and he’d ferry it across to the States, and they’d put it on the trains, and it’d go to Pennsylvania.”

“This was on the old tug, Donnelly. And the captain got into the drink before we left Kington. He was a good handler. He’d been all up north and all over the place, but he fell down at the steering wheel, just above Prescott, below the Brockville Narrows. And the tug was going up the river. We’re on the barge going down the river.”

“Well, it was like a houseboat, but they towed it with a barge. You know, they were just built just literally square, more rectangle, long and so wide, but you had to be towed by like a motorboat or a tugboat. Well they have one in Alexandria Bay there at the boat museum.”

“He owned a lot of land here, and he had men working that, but he started out with just a big motorboat and a barge going around picking up grain on different parts of the Island and taking it to the elevators.”

“Where is the Bailey bridge?”
“Oh the way they did it — they took a barge and they sunk it. And then they put this bridge out to it so that the ferry could land out there. That was the old Wolfe Islander at that time.”

“Well there’s a picture of something in the museum in the Cape … it’s like a barge with this horse on- it’s like a wheel … it looks like a ramp, but actually the horse is walking, and it’s turning a wheel, a paddlewheel … Talk about one-horse power. And it’s like, you know, the boat could take a car. It’s like a barge. And then this horse is on this treadmill.”