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Fire Canoes : Steamboats on Great Canadian Rivers

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Anson Northup, the first steamboat on the Canadian prairies, arrived in Fort Garry in 1859.

Belching hot sparks and growling in fury, it was called "fire canoe" by the local Cree.

The first steam-powered passenger vessel in Canada had begun service on the St.

Lawrence River in 1809, and for the next 150 years, steamboats carried passengers and freight on great Canadian rivers, among them the treacherous Stikine and Fraser in British Columbia; the Peace, Athabasca and Red Rivers on the prairies; and the mighty St.

Lawrence and Saguenay in Ontario and Quebec. Travel back in time aboard makeshift gold-rush riverboats in the Yukon, sternwheelers on the Saskatchewan and luxurious liners in the St.

Lawrence to the decades when steamboats sent the echoes of whistles across a vast land of powerful rivers.

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1927051452 / 9781927051450
Paperback / softback
15/04/2012
Canada
144 pages
139 x 215 mm, 185 grams