All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
by William Wood
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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
- THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING. From a painting by Verner
- ALL AFLOAT
- A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
- WILLIAM WOOD
- TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1915
- TO THE PETRYS EACH AND ALL IN TOKEN OF A FAMILY FRIENDSHIP FOUR GENERATIONS STRONG
- CONTENTS
- 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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