All Afloat
by William Wood
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wood, William, 1864-1947
- Title
- All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F1001: North America local history: Canada
- Subject
- Fisheries -- Canada
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24808
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24808
- Release Date
- March 11, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CHRONICLES OF CANADA Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In Thirty-two volumes — 31 ALL AFLOAT BY WILLIAM WOOD — Part IX National Highways — THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING. From a painting by Verner — ALL AFLOAT — A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways — BY
- 2.WILLIAM WOOD — TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1915 — TO THE PETRYS EACH AND ALL IN TOKEN OF A FAMILY FRIENDSHIP FOUR GENERATIONS STRONG
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I — A LAND OF WATERWAYS — THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKES By Lorado Taft, in the Chicago Art Institute — CHAPTER II — CANOES — CHAPTER III — SAILING CRAFT: THE PIONEERS — SHIPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's America — CHAPTER IV — SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS[1] — CHAMPLAIN'S SHIP, THE DON DE DIEU From the model at the Quebec Tercentenary — A FRENCH FRIGATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's America — 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' — 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. — CHAPTER VIII — STEAMERS — TRANSPORT BECKWITH AND BATEAUX, LAKE ONTARIO, 1816. From the John Rose Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. — THE ROYAL WILLIAM From the original painting in possession of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec — 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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