Jan 4 Souris News – Not a speck of ice is to be seen in the bay, although the river is frozen over. (Pat 4 Jan p1#4)
Jan 4 Tern Schooner “Delight” arrived yesterday at Souris from St. Pierre and will lay up there for the winter. (Pat 5 Jan p3#1)
Feb 10 Sunday morning, six United States fishing schooners that had sought Shelburne harbor as a refuge from the fearful storm then raging, were caught in the ice that made the previous night nearly down to Sand Point. Daylight found them with oars, dories and clubs trying to break their way out. The Dominion government steamer “Newfield” weighed anchor, and steamed up near then through the ice, and warped them out in succession to anchorage, whence they cold sail soon as weather moderated. (HH 21/02/1895 p2 #1)
Feb 13 North Sydney: navigation closed. (LL)
Feb 19 Large quantities of heavy field ice were reported in 37°01’N 75°38’W. (MWR Feb.48.1)
Mar Issue MWR: Much heavy ice was encountered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Mar Burin: harbour entirely free of ice, local as well as drift, all winter. None seen during March. (HB #294 Apr 17)
Mar 2 The Red Cross line steamer “San Domingo,” in dry dock for repairs, passed an iceberg Saturday off Cape Race, and ran into field ice off Canso afterwards. (HH 07/03/1895 p5 #3)
Mar 12 North Sydney, harbor is open up to the Sydney Mines pier, and so far there has been but little ice experienced on our eastern seaboard, and it is generally thought that the variable high winds will so clear the gulf that navigation will not be impeded. (HH 13/03/1895 p1 last col)
Mar 12-31 A great deal of slob ice, closely packed about half the time, but the ice is very thin as compared with former years. [where?] (HB #298 May 15)
Mar 13 Channel Head: No ice till the 13th after which strings of ice were visible, sometimes reaching the shore. (HB #294 Apr 17)
Mar 16 The steamer “St. Pierre,” arrived this morning from the south coast of Newfoundland. She reports a rough, stormy passage and found the gulf full of heavy ice, extending 50 miles east of Cape Ray on that coast and 50 miles south to Cape Breton to 45°32 N and 59°W. Got embayed in the ice during the gale of the 16th and 17th, and lost some of the iron sheathing forward. And we regret to have to report several losses from that cause in the gale of the 17th. The schooner “Caroline Silver” which had a full load of seals, part on board and part on the ice alongside, was rafted under, the crew barely escaping with their lives over the ice. (HH 27/03/1895 p8#2)
Mar 25 SS “Delano” 44°43’N 57°15’W a large field of ice. (NYMR)
Mar 26 SS St. Pierre at Halifax from Newfoundland ports found heavy ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence extending to 50 miles E of Cape Ray and 50 miles S of Cape Breton. (Boston Advertiser). (HB #292 Apr 3)
Apr Issue MWR: The southernmost ice reported, a quantity of broken field ice observed on the 28th in 39°22’N 66°03’W and the easternmost ice reported.
Apr Fishermen arriving at Gloucester, Mass, Apr. 15, report large quantities of heavy ice along the W coast of Newfoundland from Pass Island up the coast to Cape Anguille and extending well out in to the Gulf. (HB #295 Apr 24)
Apr Brunet Island: no ice of any kind during April. (HB #300 May 29)
Apr Channel Head: strings of drift ice 2 or 3 miles from shore till the 14th. Drift ice 2 to 5 miles from shore during the last week. No ice in May. (HB #300 May 29)
Apr 1 Meat Cove, CB, says: All stations report heavy close packed ice moving east; fresh northwest wind. (HH 02/04/1895 p1 last)
Apr 3 SS “California” 45°25’N 57°26’W to 45°15’N 58°07’W passed through heavy pack ice 2 to 8 feet thick. At times extending N and S as far as the eye could see. (HB #293 Apr 10)
Apr 6 Sydney Light, NS, heavy open ice north and northeast about ten miles distant. (HH 08/04/1895 p7#1)
Apr 7 SS “Halifax City” 45°22’N 57°27’W passed an ice field 2 miles wide. (HB #297 May 8)
Apr 8 SS “Chateau Lafite” 45°23’N 57°34’W passed an ice field 5 miles wide. (HB #295 Apr 24)
Apr 13 Meat Cove, CB, heavy close packed ice as far as can be seen. St. Paul’s the same. A three masted-steamer distant. Magdalens report clear water except a strip of light ice along shore. (HH 15/04/1895 p4#2)
Apr 15 Meat Cove, CB, strong southeast wind. St. Paul’s, heavy close packed ice. Meat Cove, heavy open. Grosse Isle, light open distant, moving west. West Point, Magdalene Islands, ice ten miles wide. (HH 16/04/1895 p4 #3)
Apr 19 Meat Cove, CB, ice heavy and open far as can be seen. Same at St. Paul’s to northward; very little ice east of there. East end Magdalen’s light open ice everywhere. West light, ice distant. (HH 21/04/1895 p2 #3)
Apr 22 The steamer “St. Pierre” reports that on the passage from Newfoundland and St. Pierre to Cow Bay, she saw no ice. A telegram from Margaree harbor reports no ice in the gulf. (HH 22/04/1895 p8#1)
Apr 22 Meat Cove, CB, heavy, close packed ice moving south. Magdalens the same, moving east. St. Paul’s the same, moving south. (HH 28/04/1895 p8#2)
Apr 23 Meat Cove, St. Paul’s and West Point, Magdalens; reports heavy close packed ice everywhere. East Point, MI, light open ice inshore moving east and south. (HH 24/04/1895 p8 #1)
Apr 25 Pictou, NS – The harbor is now clear of ice and navigation is open between here and the Straits of Canso. Steamers are now making daily trips to Prince Edward Island, and the first steamer for Magdalene Islands, sailed today. (NYMR, p.9, col.4)
Apr 25 Meat Cove, CB, strong SW wind. St. Paul’s reports light open ice everywhere. Meat Cove, light open, distant. West Point, MI. No ice. East Point, ice two miles wind in shore. (HH 26/04/1895 p8#4)
Apr 27 Sydney Light, NS, ice distant north and northeast open southeast. (HH 29/04/1895 p7#1)
Apr 28 Bark “Sedgemore” 39°22’N 66°03’W passed a quantity of broken field ice. (HB #300 May 29)
Apr 29 Steamer Urbino (BR) Gray, at Baltimore from Sunderland reports lat 40°40’, lon 59°41’ [?], sighted two large icebergs. (NYMR 15 May p.9, col.4)
Apr 30 Sydney Light, CB, light open ice northeast. (HH 01/05/1895 p7#2)
May 1 North Sydney: navigation is now open. (LL)
May 4 Sydney Light, CB, wind strong northwest; strip of heavy open ice coming in. (HH 06/05/1895 p7#1)
May 6 Halifax, arrived, steamer “John Bright,” Pensacola, bound to London put in for coal. Was within 17 miles of Sydney but could not get there on account of ice and damaged several bow plates. (HH 07/05/1895 p7#1)
May 8 SS “Eleanor” reports seeing a steamer and a bark in the ice off Cape Ray, NF. The ice fields were extensive and caused the “Eleanor” to go many miles out of her course. (HB #297 May 8)
May 9 SS “Memphis” passed an ice field 15 miles W of Cape Ray extending about 3 miles N and S. (HB #299 May 22)
May 9 SS “Merrimac” passed through a large quantity of dangerous field ice from 47°10’N 58°12’W to Cabot Straits. (HB #299 May 22)
May 9 SS “Avlona” saw the first light field ice in 45°57’N 58°40’W which grew more closely packed towards Sydney Harbour and thence along N shore to Cape North. Saw the last of it in 47°23’N 60°12’W. (HB #299 May 22)
May 10 SS “Hurona” ran into 2 packs of field ice between Cape Ray and St. Pauls. It was thick and compact in places. (HB #298 May 15)
May 11 Bark “Ossuna” 46°47’N 58°40’W passed loose field ice. (HB #299 May 22)