All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - William Wood

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       William Wood

      All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664598035

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       CHAPTER I

       A LAND OF WATERWAYS

       CHAPTER II

       CANOES

       CHAPTER III

       SAILING CRAFT: THE PIONEERS

       CHAPTER IV

       SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS[1]

       CHAPTER V

       SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE UNION JACK

       CHAPTER VI

       SAILING CRAFT: THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP

       CHAPTER VII

       SAILING CRAFT: 'FIT TO GO FOREIGN'

       CHAPTER VIII

       STEAMERS

       CHAPTER IX

       FISHERIES

       CHAPTER X

       ADMINISTRATION

       CHAPTER XI

       NAVIES

       BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

       INDEX

       THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA

       PART I. THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS

       PART II. THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE

       PART III. THE ENGLISH INVASION

       PART IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA

       PART V. THE RED MAN IN CANADA

       PART VI. PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST

       PART VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM

       PART VIII. THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY

       PART IX. NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

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THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING From a painting by Verner. Frontispiece
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKES By Lorado Taft, in the Chicago Art Institute. Facing page 12
SHIPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' 44
CHAMPLAIN'S SHIP, THE 'DON DE DIEU' From the model at the Quebec Tercentenary. 54
A FRENCH FRIGATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' 64
SHIP 'BATAVIA,' 2000 TONS Built by F.-X. Marquis at Quebec, 1877. Lost on Inaccessible Island, 1879. From a picture belonging to Messrs Ross and Co., Quebec. 92
TRANSPORT 'BECKWITH' AND BATEAUX, LAKE ONTARIO, 1816 From the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. 136
THE 'ROYAL WILLIAM' From the original painting in possession of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. 140

      

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      Canada is the child of the sea. Her infancy was cradled

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