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Isaac Johnson and the P.S. Lady Sherbrooke
  
Isaac Johnson was the master shipbuilder who oversaw the production
of many of the Molson steamboats. He worked for the Logan shipyard,
which was next door to the Molson brewery. Although we do not have
much information on the man himself, contracts from that period
tell us that he was much in demand during a time when
shipbuilding was a booming industry in Montréal. More steamships
were built in Montréal than anywhere else in Canada during the
first part of the nineteenth century. Isaac Johnson,a master craftsman
who could adapt traditional ship construction to the new steam
technology, played a very important role in the success of the
Molson steamship line.
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