SOREL, Richelieu county, Quebec, is situated at the mouth of the Richelieu river, which empties into the St. Lawrence river. Within the mouth of the river, for a distance of two miles, the depth of water is from 4 to 5 fathoms and good anchorage is found. Here steamers escape the heavy ice which moves down the St. Lawrence river in the spring and many steamers, tugs, barges and small vessels find winter quarters.

Anchorage can be had off Sorel, north or south of the ship's tracks in 51⁄2 to 8 fathoms, from a little east of the line of the beacons to half a mile westward of the entrance of the Richelieu river, or anywhere between Sorel and Lanoraie. See St. Lawrence Pilot (Canadian edition) Above Quebec and Canadian chart of river St. Lawrence No. 7.

The place presents a busy scene during the winter and spring, while a large number of steamers and tugs are undergoing repairs, many of them having been hauled out on the west bank of the Richelieu river. There are four shipyards at Sorel, the principal one is the Government shipyard, where Government steamers, tugs, dredges and barges are constructed each year. Extensive repairs are made at this yard of vessels owned by the Government, but under the control of several departments. The plant used in deepening and widening the St. Lawrence ship channel is put in winter quarters at this shipyard, overhauled every season and put in good working order for the summer operations. Repairs to the plant are also made when required, at any time. Marine slips with sufficient power to haul out vessels of 1,200 tons are located in the shipyard. The yard is equipped with machine shops, foundry, stores, saw mill, moulding loft, paint shops and sheds, in which about 650 men on an average, are constantly employed. A railway track is laid from the station in the town to the shipyard and constantly used for conveying materials. The yard is under the control of a director who is an officer of the Marine and Fisheries department.

The Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company place their fine river boats at Sorel in the autumn, and during the winter overhaul and refit them for the summer's traffic on the St. Lawrence river and elsewhere. The company has a well equipped shipyard at Sorel, where steamers are built and repaired. Other shipyards are the Manseau and Poupore yards, at which repairs are made and small steamers and tugs built.

There are six wharves along the river front on the town side, including the Government wharves, having a total frontage of 6,350 feet, with three sheds used for receiving general freight. Coal is also landed in considerable quantities. (A railway siding from the Sorel station is used for transhipping and forwarding freight to and from vessels.)

At the mouth of the river, on the east side, a spacious block of crib work has been built and is used by the Department of Marine and Fisheries for storing buoys, anchors and chains during the winter, of the St. Lawrence river buoys and where repairs are made to them.

The depth of water alongside this pier or quay is 30 feet. The system of navigation between lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence river begins at Sorel and is continued from Whitehall, at the southern end of Lake Champlain, to the Hudson river and New York, a total distance of 411 miles. The navigable depth of water in the Richelieu river at the locks is 7 feet.

The port charges are harbour master's dues, paid twice a year, and sick mariners' dues, payable three times a year if not paid elsewhere.

Pilotage is under the Montreal Pilotage district and the rates will be found in the information given under the port of Montreal.

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A signal mast with a yard is erected on the Government wharf. cation by wireless telegraph day and night can be made with passing vessels to and from Montreal.

A special rule of the road for Sorel harbour requires all vessels entering or leaving the harbour to keep to the port side unless otherwise signalled.

Lights. Two range lights, one on the Richelieu company's wharf on east side of mouth of Richelieu river, latitude N. 46 2 50, longitude W. 73 7 7, one on S.W. point of wharf, 30 feet, 171° 10' from front, both red fixed. See List of Lights on the Atlantic Coast and Gulf St. Lawrence 1913. Between Montreal and Sorel the distance is 38 miles.

The total tonnage entered and cleared at this port for the fiscal year 1911-12 was 295,404 tons.

SOURIS HARBOUR, Kings county, Prince Edward Island, is in Colville bay, south east coast of the Island. Colville bay has from 4 to 9 fathoms of water and 214 fathoms at its head. The bay affords good anchorage in off-shore winds. It is, however, open to easterly winds. It is entered from the gulf of St. Lawrence and Northumberland strait. Between Souris head and Swanton point is Colville river, an inlet of the sea, and in its entrance is Souris harbour. The bay near the harbour is one mile broad and half a mile deep, with no dangers. The harbour is protected by a breakwater, 1,500 feet long by 40 feet wide. There is a dredged channel, 800 feet long by 80 feet wide leading to the end of the Railway wharf. Northward for 150 yards the dredged channel from the breakwater is 15 feet deep, low water. The railway wharf is 700 feet long and 80 feet wide, 200 feet inside of the breakwater. In the dredged part alongside of wharf the water is 15 feet in depth, the length of the wharf, at low water. On the inside of the wharf the dredged part from the end to the shore is 20 feet wide. Tides at Souris rise 42 feet springs and 3 feet neaps. A warehouse, 100 feet long by 40 feet in width, is located on the wharf with railway tracks on each side. One track is laid to the end of the wharf and the other to loading ports on the inner side of the wharf opposite the warehouse.

Another wharf, 400 feet long by 40 feet wide, is owned by Mathews and McLean, dredged alongside to 13 feet at low water. There are five warehouses on the wharf and a basin near it with 10 feet depth of water, low tide.

Between the railway wharf and Mathews and McLean's wharf is a large warehouse owned by J. J. Hughes for storage of grain and other articles of shipment.

Storm signals are erected at Souris.

Lights. The lights are, one on Knight's point; Souris east, 300 feet, S.E. of breakwater, latitude N. 46 20 50, longitude W. 62 14 30, white flashing; one on outer end of breakwater, red fixed. See List of Lights for Atlantic Coast and gulf St. Lawrence for 1913.

There is a harbour master at Souris and the port charges are the same as at other Canadian ports.

Souris is the eastern terminus of the Prince Edward Island railway. Stores, provisions and fresh water can easily be obtained.

SUMMERSIDE HARBOUR, Prince county, Prince Edward Island, is in Bedeque bay on the south-west side of the island. The harbour is also known as Bedeque harbour. The bay is extensive and its entrance from Sea Cow head, on the southern side to Sunbury point on the north side, is about 10 miles in width. The bay gradually narrows until Indian head is reached, on the south side. The anchorage in the bay is from 32 to 4 fathoms in depth, and in the roadstead between Indian head and Miscouche bank is 22 feet in depth and safe in summer but open to south-westerly winds.

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There is a breakwater at Indian head 3,200 feet long running northerly. channels inside the breakwater are buoyed and the depth of channel leading to the wharves at Summerside is 19 feet in depth at the shallowest part. good anchorage near the wharves especially east of the railway wharf.

The tides rise 7 feet springs.

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The wharves are:-No. 1, called the town wharf, has a depth of water on the west side, of 20 feet for 300 feet from the end, and 16 feet for 600 feet shorewards, low water; on the east side of wharf the depth is 20 feet for 600 feet, decreasing to 16 feet. The wharf is used by gulf port and other steamers. There is a shed upon it for receiving freight; No. 2, is a private wharf owned by R. T. Holman, Ltd. The depth of water at this wharf, on the west side, for 400 feet from end, is 16 feet, low water; on the east side, the depth from 300 feet from end is 17 feet, low water. The end of this wharf is also used by gulf port steamers and it has upon it a freight shed and coal shed, with hoisting derrick; No. 3 is the railway or government wharf. The depth of water for 600 feet is from 20 feet decreasing to 17 feet, at low water, on the east side, and on the west side the water is 12 feet decreasing to 6 feet, low water. At the end is a coal shed. There is a freight. shed near the end of this wharf and a coal shed, and another coal shed half way up the wharf. This wharf is used by the Charlottetown Steam Navigation Company's steamers which keep up daily passenger and freight communication with Pointe-du-Chene, New Brunswick. There are 3 railway tracks on this wharf connecting with the main line of the Prince Edward Island Railway; No. 4 wharf is a private wharf owned by Joseph Reid and Co., used by schooners of light draught, and has upon it a coal shed into which coal is discharged from vessels.

Vessels can be repaired at Summerside where supplies, material and good workmen can be procured. Supplies and stores of all kinds can be readily and reasonably obtained at the port. Summerside is a port of entry and under the control of the Customs at this port are several outports.

Summerside is an important town, with regard to imports and exports, and has steamboat freight and passenger communication with all Maritime ports and the St. Lawrence route. It has also telegraph communication and railway communication with all parts of the Prince Edward Island railway system, and steamboat communication with the Intercolonial railway at Pointe-du-Chene. The traffic during the season of navigation is extensive, and large exports of agricultural products, horses and other live stock and shell fish, are made from this port.

In Bedeque bay are several wharves from which exports of agricultural products are shipped. The surrounding country is an exceptionally fine agricultural section.

Light. One on Sea Cow head, on the extremity of the low flat point, "latitude N. 46 19 10, longitude W. 63 48 25, white fixed; one on Indian point east edge of shoal on south side of channal in Bedeque bay, latitude N. 46 22 50, longitude W. 63 48 45; one on railway wharf Summerside, latitude N. 46 23 30, longitude W. 63 47 13, red and white sectors fixed; one 34mile, 69° 15′, from front latitude N. 46 23 45, longitude W. 63 46 13.

Port Charges.-There is a harbour master at Summerside and the port charges are similar to dues collected at other Canadian seaports, viz: harbour master's and sick mariners' dues.

Pilotage. The services of a pilot may be procured by signaling but there is no pilotage authority at Summerside nor Bedeque.

The tonnage entered and departed including out ports at the port of Summerside for the fiscal year 1911-12 was 410,107 tons.

SIDNEY HARBOUR is at the eastern end of Cape Breton island, in Cape Breton county, N.S. The harbour is entered from Cabot strait through Spanish bay. The depth of water in the bay is from 8 to 20 fathoms at low water. Sydney harbour is on the shore of an inlet and the depth of the water at the entrance of the inlet between Cranberry Head and Flat point is 8 fathoms at low water. The inlet extends south-westward five miles from its entrance, with a general width of 1 4-10 miles; it then divides into West arm, which runs west-south-westward for 334 miles to Ball creek, with a general width of three-quarters of a mile, and South arm which runs southward and south-westward for five miles, with a width decreasing from nearly a mile to 11⁄2 cables. The harbour is entirely land locked, with a depth of water of from 6 to 10 fathoms and no obstructions. The area of water from 5 to 7 fathoms is approximately 2 8-10 square miles in the harbour of Sydney. The depth of water along some parts of the frontage of the town is over 8 fathoms within a few feet of the shore.

Anchorage. There is anchorage in about 5 fathoms, mud bottom at 11⁄2 to 2 cables at North Sydney under the shelter of N. W. bar, but there is some sea with easterly winds. Anchorage may be obtained in Fishery cove in 6 to 7 fathoms, mud bottom, well sheltered by S.E. bar.

The port of Sydney is completely sheltered by S.E. bar, which affords safe anchorage in every part. The anchorage is good, with deep water close off the wharves of the town northward of the line of Shingle point, bearing west. Within that line there are shoals. The depth of this anchorage is 5 to 81⁄2 fathoms. There is sufficient depth for large naval and merchant marine vessels to the head of the harbour between which and the town is the most secure part. When anchoring in North Sydney roads avoid the telegraph cables shown on plan 2,042 (1,322), latitude 46 13' N., longitude 60 14 W.

Piers. The Dominion Coal Company has two piers known as the International piers No. 1 and No. 2. No. 1 pier is 1,120 feet long by 40 feet in width. It has two high level tracks for the full cars and two return tracks which carry empty cars to the low level yard. The pier is equipped with two Ludlow towers and cranes, by which coal is hoisted in buckets and deposited in bunkers and holds. of vessels. The loading berth has 26 feet of water at low water. The rise of the tides is 6 feet at springs and 4 feet at neaps. Pier No. 2 is 1,150 feet long, with double tracks laid, equipped with steel chutes and a Denton hoist. From this