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Title: All Afloat
A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

Author: William Wood

Release Date: March 11, 2008 [eBook #24808]

Language: English

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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

[Frontispiece: 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 {ix}

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