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


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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) (3 hr 59 min)

Chapters

A Land of Waterways 21:40 Read by Maria Kasper
Canoes 35:12 Read by Maria Kasper
Sailing Craft: The Pioneers 19:09 Read by Maria Kasper
Sailing Craft: Under the Fleurs-de-Lis 20:31 Read by Maria Kasper
Sailing Craft: Under the Union Jack 20:15 Read by Maria Kasper
Sailing Craft: The Building of the Ship 11:25 Read by Scott Foster
Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part I 21:29 Read by Scott Foster
Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part II 22:38 Read by Scott Foster
Steamers 28:47 Read by Scott Foster
Fisheries 18:29 Read by Scott Foster
Administration 8:45 Read by Scott Foster
Navies 11:31 Read by Scott Foster