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
EAN 4057664598035
Table of Contents
SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS[1]
SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE UNION JACK
SAILING CRAFT: THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP
SAILING CRAFT: 'FIT TO GO FOREIGN'
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 VI. PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST
PART VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM
PART VIII. THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY
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 |
| 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 |
CHAPTER I
A LAND OF WATERWAYS
Canada is the child of the sea. Her infancy was cradled