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M'Dougall was a seaman of indomitable per- 

 severance, as his famous voyage to England 

 shows. Goudie, though only twenty-one, was 

 a most capable naval architect, born in Canada 

 and taught his profession in Scotland. His 

 father was a naval architect before him and 

 had built several British vessels on the Great 

 Lakes for service against the Americans during 

 the War of 1812. Both Goudie and Henry 

 lived to retell their tale in 1891, when the 

 Canadian government put up a tablet to com- 

 memorate what pioneering work the Royal 

 William had done, both for the inter-colonial 

 and inter-imperial connection. 



The first stimulus to move the promoters of 

 the Royal William was the subsidy of $12,000 

 offered by the government of Lower Canada 

 in 1830 to the owners of any steamer over five 

 hundred tons that would ply between Quebec 

 and Halifax. Half this amount had been 

 offered in 1825, but the inducement was not 

 then sufficient. The Quebec and Halifax 

 Navigation Company was formed by the 

 leading merchants of Quebec joined with a 

 few in Halifax. The latter included the three 

 Cunard brothers, whose family name has been 

 a household word in transatlantic shipping 

 circles from that day to this. On September 2, 



