Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited
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Years before railroads arrived, the Canadian West was opened up by an unlikely breed of steamboats plying Prairie waterways. Their aboriginal pilots,...
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Years before railroads arrived, the Canadian West was opened up by an unlikely breed of steamboats plying Prairie waterways. Their aboriginal pilots, experts at reading the tricky waterways, called the ships “fire canoes.” By day they chased freight contracts, but at night they introduced the Edwardian Prairies to pleasure cruises.
- Format:Kindle Edition
- Pages:385 pages
- Publication:2015
- Publisher:Dundurn Press
- Edition:2
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:1459732103
- ISBN13:9781459732100
- kindle Asin:B00UBXH1A8
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