What's Up, Dock?

This 1881 Kingston Harbour map, from Library and Archives Canada, illustrates two things:

One, how difficult it must have been to bring your sloop, schooner, steamer or laker into the harbour, past those shoals, and oh, don't hit Shoal Tower on the way by!

Two, how those dock names ebbed and flowed over the years as new commercial enterprises, merchants and companies rose to prominence. Wharves extended from the shipyards to the Queen’s Wharf at Tete du Pont Barracks. The slips at the foot of the streets were all open: at Barrack, Strange’s; at Queen, Smith’s; at Princess, Commercial; at Brock, Scobell’s; at Clarence, Fraser’s; at William, Cartwright’s; at Earl, Counter’s; at Beverley, Morton’s. The names of wharves changed over time as enterprises came and went, or their uses changed.