Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks and canoes the Eskimos and Indians used before the white man came, and use today; of the small craft moved by oar and sail that slowly displaced those moved only by the paddle; of the sailing vessels proper, and how they plied along Canadian waterways, and on all the Seven Seas; of the steamers, which shed so much forgotten lustre on Canadian enterprise; of the teeming fisheries which the far-seeing Lord Bacon rightly thought 'richer treasures than the mines of Mexico and of Peru'; of the Dominion's trade and government relations with nations that 'have their business in great waters'; and, finally, of that guardian Navy, without whose freely given care the 'water history' of Canada could never have been made at all. (Summary modified from the text)
Genre(s): History, Transportation
Language: English
Group: Chronicles of Canada Series
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | A Land of Waterways | Maria Kasper |
00:21:40 |
Play 02 | Canoes | Maria Kasper |
00:35:12 |
Play 03 | Sailing Craft: The Pioneers | Maria Kasper |
00:19:09 |
Play 04 | Sailing Craft: Under the Fleurs-de-Lis | Maria Kasper |
00:20:31 |
Play 05 | Sailing Craft: Under the Union Jack | Maria Kasper |
00:20:15 |
Play 06 | Sailing Craft: The Building of the Ship | Scott Foster |
00:11:25 |
Play 07 | Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part I | Scott Foster |
00:21:29 |
Play 08 | Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part II | Scott Foster |
00:22:38 |
Play 09 | Steamers | Scott Foster |
00:28:47 |
Play 10 | Fisheries | Scott Foster |
00:18:29 |
Play 11 | Administration | Scott Foster |
00:08:45 |
Play 12 | Navies | Scott Foster |
00:11:31 |