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All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

Chapter 37: PART IX. NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
By William Wood
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A historical and technical survey of the waterways that shaped Canada's transport and commerce, tracing indigenous and European small craft from birch-bark canoes to oceangoing ships and steamers. It describes construction, handling, and the hazards of canoe travel, including portaging, rapid-running, and crew techniques, then follows the development of sailing vessels, shipbuilding, and the rise of steam navigation. The work also examines fisheries, naval and administrative structures, and the organized voyages of fur-trade officials, combining practical description with broader discussions of waterways' economic and logistical roles.




THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA


Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton of the University of Toronto

A series of thirty-two freshly-written narratives for popular reading, designed to set forth, in historic continuity, the principal events and movements in Canada, from the Norse Voyages to the Railway Builders.


PART I. THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS

1. The Dawn of Canadian History
A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK

2. The Mariner of St Malo
A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK


PART II. THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE

3. The Founder of New France
A Chronicle of Champlain
BY CHARLES W. COLBY

4. The Jesuit Missions
A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
BY THOMAS GUTHRIE MARQUIS

5. The Seigneurs of Old Canada
A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism
BY WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO

6. The Great Intendant
A Chronicle of Jean Talon
BY THOMAS CHAPAIS

7. The Fighting Governor
A Chronicle of Frontenac
BY CHARLES W. COLBY


PART III. THE ENGLISH INVASION

8. The Great Fortress
A Chronicle of Louisbourg
BY WILLIAM WOOD

9. The Acadian Exiles
A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline
BY ARTHUR G. DOUGHTY

10. The Passing of New France
A Chronicle of Montcalm
BY WILLIAM WOOD

11. The Winning of Canada
A Chronicle of Wolfe
BY WILLIAM WOOD


PART IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA

12. The Father of British Canada
A Chronicle of Carleton
BY WILLIAM WOOD

13. The United Empire Loyalists
A Chronicle of the Great Migration
BY W. STEWART WALLACE

14. The War with the United States
A Chronicle of 1812
BY WILLIAM WOOD


PART V. THE RED MAN IN CANADA

15. The War Chief of the Ottawas
A Chronicle of the Pontiac War
BY THOMAS GUTHRIE MARQUIS

16. The War Chief of the Six Nations
A Chronicle of Joseph Brant
BY LOUIS AUBREY WOOD

17. Tecumseh
A Chronicle of the last Great Leader of his People
BY ETHEL T. RAYMOND


PART VI. PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST

18. The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay
A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North
BY AGNES C. LAUT

19. Pathfinders of the Great Plains
A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons
BY LAWRENCE J. BURPEE

20. Adventurers of the Far North
A Chronicle of the Arctic Seas
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK

21. The Red River Colony
A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
BY LOUIS AUBREY WOOD

22. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast
A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
BY AGNES C. LAUT

23. The Cariboo Trail
A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
BY AGNES C. LAUT


PART VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM

24. The Family Compact
A Chronicle of the Rebellion in Upper Canada
BY W. STEWART WALLACE

25. The Patriotes of '37
A Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lower Canada
BY ALFRED D. DECELLES

26. The Tribune of Nova Scotia
A Chronicle of Joseph Howe
BY WILLIAM LAWSON GRANT

27. The Winning of Popular Government
A Chronicle of the Union of 1841
BY ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN


PART VIII. THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY

28. The Fathers of Confederation
A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion
BY A. H. U. COLQUHOUN

29. The Day of Sir John Macdonald
A Chronicle of the Early Years of the Dominion
BY SIR JOSEPH POPE

30. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
A Chronicle of Our Own Times
BY OSCAR D. SKELTON


PART IX. NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

31. All Afloat
A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
BY WILLIAM WOOD

32. The Railway Builders
A Chronicle of Overland Highways
BY OSCAR D. SKELTON