Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

William Wood (1864 - 1947)

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
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