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The Project Gutenberg eBook, All Afloat, by William Wood
Title: All Afloat
A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
Author: William Wood
Release Date: March 11, 2008 [eBook #24808]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL AFLOAT***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
Transcriber's note:
Page numbers in this book are placed in the left margin.
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
WILLIAM WOOD
TORONTO
GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY
1915
Copyright in all Countries subscribing
to the Berne Convention
TO
THE PETRYS
EACH AND ALL
IN TOKEN OF
A FAMILY FRIENDSHIP
FOUR GENERATIONS STRONG
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| I. | A LAND OF WATERWAYS | 1 |
| II. | CANOES | 16 |
| III. | SAILING CRAFT; THE PIONEERS | 41 |
| IV. | SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS | 54 |
| V. | SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE UNION JACK | 68 |
| VI. | SAILING CRAFT: THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP | 82 |
| VII. | SAILING CRAFT: 'FIT TO GO FOREIGN' | 92 |
| VIII. | STEAMERS | 129 |
| IX. | FISHERIES | 155 |
| X. | ADMINISTRATION | 171 |
| XI. | NAVIES | 179 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | 189 | |
| INDEX | 193 |
[Transcriber's note: The page numbers below are those in the original book. However, in this e-book, to avoid the splitting of paragraphs, the illustrations may have been moved to preceding or following pages.]
ILLUSTRATIONS
| 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 |