Fire canoe : prairie steamboat days Remembered

cloth, dust jacket, gilt spine, pp., xii,356 p.,6 pp.,illustrated, (16 pp black & white ills from photographs, maps, biblography, index, signed & inscribed by the author on t.p., "For Tarah.How the West Was Won, Ted Barris, 2016. Reprint. Originally published: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1977. CONTENTS: Prologue 1 First Down the Red 2 The Scot, the Wolf, and the Honourable Company 3 Paddles of Peace and War 4 Walterdale Steam 5 Saskatchewan Tramp Steamers,6 The Queer Apple 7 J.K. Cornwall and his N.T.C. 8 Dontianen Lives 9 Laird of the Saskatchewan 10 In Defiance of la Bete Noire 11 On the Sixth Great Lake Epilogue Notes Bibliography Chronology IndexYears before railroads arrived, the Canadian West was opened up by an unlikely breed of ship: steamboats plying Prairie waterways. Their aboriginal pilots, experts at reading the tricky waterways, called the ships "fire canoes." By day they chased freight contracts, but at night they introduced the Edwardian Prairies to pleasure cruises.

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Publisher: Dundurn Press,

Year: 2015

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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