The S. Anglin Fuel Company was originally a timber company, incorporated in Kingston in 1865, which gradually worked its way through building materials and lumber, coal, and oil as home heating fuels changed over the years.
Timber was originally transported by the Cataraqui River, and later by the Kingston and Pembroke Railway, a now-defunct Canadian Pacific line.
Coal was soon added as a sideline, gradually displaced by fuel oil from 1953 onward.
Anglin once handled a quarter million tons a year of heating and industrial coal[1] and operated substantial lumber, drydock and shipbuilding facilities.
[4] Various shipwrecks remain visible in Anglin Bay; many of these ships belonged to the former Montreal Transportation Company shipyard at the entrance to Anglin Bay or to Canada Steamship Lines of Montreal.