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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of William Wood

Chapter 35: ILLUSTRATIONS
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This reference compiles the author's historical and nautical works into a single finding aid, listing individual volumes with their tables of contents, chapter headings, illustration and map lists, and bibliographical notes. Entries survey military campaigns, colonial chronicles, naval actions, ship types, and waterways, and indicate sources and indexes where present. The arrangement is practical and navigational, designed to help readers locate specific essays, chapters, or visual materials across the collected writings.

ALL AFLOAT

A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

By William Wood



CONTENTS

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 171
XI.   NAVIES 179
  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 189
  INDEX 193

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