Download or read book Fire Canoe written by Ted Barris and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years before railroads arrived, the Canadian West was opened up by an unlikely breed of ship: 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.
Download or read book Fire Canoe written by Elsa Falk3 and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Canoe written by Ted Barris and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fire in the Bones written by James Raffan and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bill Mason set off alone into the wilderness in his red canoe, many people went with him, if only in their imaginations. Now, James Raffan leads us into the heart of the vast landscape that was Bill Mason's own brilliant imagination, on a biographical journey that is entertaining, enriching and inspiring.Bill Mason was a filmmaker who gave us classics such as Cry of the Wild and Paddle to the Sea; he was author of the canoeist's bible, Path of the Paddle; he was the consummate outdoorsman. But few Canadians know that his gentleness and rugged self-sufficiency masked a life of great physical struggles. James Raffan reveals the private, sometimes anguished, man behind the legend.
Download or read book Fire Canoe written by Theodore Barris and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superior National Forest N F Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Fuel Treatment written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boundary Waters Canoe Areas sic Wilderness Fuel Treatment written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chasing Fire written by and published by Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Danny and his family go on a challenging camping and canoeing trip from Minnesota into Canada, planning to rendezvous with Danny's older fire fighter brother along the way.
Download or read book Fire In The Bones written by James Raffan and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bill Mason set off alone into the wilderness in his red canoe, many people went with him, if only in their imaginations. Now, James Raffan leads us into the heart of the vast landscape that was Bill Mason's own brilliant imagination, on a biographical journey that is entertaining, enriching and inspiring. Bill Mason was a filmmaker who gave us classics such as Cry of the Wild and Paddle to the Sea; he was author of the canoeist's bible, Path of the Paddle; he was the consummate outdoorsman. But few Canadians know that his gentleness and rugged self-sufficiency masked a life of great physical struggles. James Raffan reveals the private, sometimes anguished, man behind the legend.
Download or read book Fire Canoe Finnegan written by Denis J. Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRE CANOE FINNEGAN is historical fiction, action, adventure, and romance at its finest. This story gives a rare insight into the contribution steamboats made to pioneers and army forts along the Missouri River. Captain Glazer, of the steamboat, The Dakota Dawn, hires Clint Finnegan to become his second in command and to learn to pilot the dangerous snag-filled waters of the Missouri River. What Finnegan didn't expect on his very first trip was to have the army payroll stolen and a beautiful woman kidnapped. Risking his life, he chases after the girl and the money, ultimately encountering angry plains Indians protecting their hunting grounds. Told from both the Sioux Indian point of view and that of conquering whites who wanted the land at all costs, this is a thrilling western tale. Filled with strong characters, the reader will walk away mesmerized with a well-researched and well-told story.
Download or read book THE CRUISE OF THE CANOE CLUB written by W. L. ALDEN and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1911-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is a very easy thing for four boys to make up their minds to get four canoes and to go on a canoe cruise, but it is not always so easy to carry out such a project—as Charley Smith, Tom Schuyler, Harry Wilson, and Joe Sharpe discovered. Canoes cost money; and though some canoes cost more than others, it is impossible to buy a new wooden canoe of an approved model for less than seventy-five dollars. Four canoes, at seventy-five dollars each, would cost altogether three hundred dollars. As the entire amount of pocket-money in the possession of the boys was only seven dollars and thirteen cents, it was clear that they were not precisely in a position to buy canoes......
Download or read book Distant Fires written by Scott Anderson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1990-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's three month canoe adventure, which started at Duluth, Minnesota and ended at York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay.
Download or read book Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips written by Laurel Archer and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the guidebook series Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips describes in detail 7 spectacular northern BC paddling routes over 11 phenomenal rivers, and is designed to provide canoeists with all the information they require to plan a river trip appropriate to their skill level and special interests. Each route includes: a summary of the main attractions; where to start and finish along the river; trip length in days and kilometres; required maps; suggestions about when to go; and star ratings for difficulty and for historical and recreational value. Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips: Volume Two covers numerous routes--some never documented in any publication before--including the Spatsizi, Upper and Lower Stikine, Tatshenshini/Alsek, Turnagain, Kechika, Toad, Liard, Tuchodi and Muskwa rivers. The book provides paddlers of all types with a variety of river trips to choose from based on comprehensive and comparative information as well as detailed and specific navigational notes to aid them along their chosen route.
Download or read book From a Wooden Canoe written by Jerry Dennis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging collection of essays extolling the virtues of traditional outdoor equipment from wooden canoes to cast-iron skillets from the 1999 recipient of the Michigan Author of the Year Award presented by the Michigan Library Association. "From a Wooden Canoe" is a gift book with substance--one that will command a place on a shelf of treasured possessions. Illustrations.
