Between Long Lake and Last Mountain : Bulyea, Duval, Strasbourg
Title | Between Long Lake and Last Mountain : Bulyea, Duval, Strasbourg PDF eBook |
Author | Strasbourg, Bulyea, Duval History Book Committee |
Publisher | Strasbourg, Sask. : Strasbourg, Bulyea, Duval History Book Committee |
Pages | 1165 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Strasbourg Region (Sask.) |
ISBN | 9780889252325 |
Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement and Between the Latter Place and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan
Title | Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement and Between the Latter Place and the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan PDF eBook |
Author | Simon James Dawson |
Publisher | New York : Greenwood Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857
Title | Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Youle Hind |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2022-07-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3375096461 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
Title | Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Geology |
ISBN |
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title | Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1480 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Subject headings, Library of Congress |
ISBN |
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title | Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1512 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Subject headings, Library of Congress |
ISBN |
Fire Canoe
Title | Fire Canoe PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Barris |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2015-09-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1459732103 |
The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies. Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie waterways. Their operators were businessmen hoping to reap the benefits of commercial enterprise along the shores and banks of Canada’s inland lakes and rivers. Their passengers were fur traders, adventure-seekers, and immigrants opening up the West. All of them sought their futures and fortunes aboard Prairie steamboats, decades before the railways arrived and took credit for the breakthrough. Aboriginal people called them “fire canoes,” but in the latter half of the nineteenth century, their operators promoted them as Mississippi-type steamship queens delivering speedy transport, along with the latest in technology and comfort. Then, as the twentieth century dawned, steamboats and their operators adapted. They launched smaller, more tailored steamers and focused on a new economy of business and pleasure in the West. By day their steamboats chased freight, fish, lumber, iron ore, real estate, and gold-mining contracts. At night, they brought out the Edwardian finery, lights, and music to tap the pleasure-cruise market.