Download or read book Fire Canoes written by Anthony Dalton and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Saskatchewan 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 on the Yukon, sternwheelers on the Saskatchewan and luxurious liners on the St. Lawrence to the decades when steamboats sent the echoes of whistles across a vast land of powerful rivers.
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 Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Canoes and Old Money written by Harold Lerch and published by Word to the World Ministries. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teen adventurers on a river trek solve a mystery and discover treasure, and that fortune comes in greater forms than just money.
Download or read book Source Book for Social Origins written by William Isaac Thomas (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Columbia River Its History Its Myths Its Scenery Its Commerce written by William Denison Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fire and Salt written by Hector Neff and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire and Salt traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five thousand years. Evidence comes from airborne lidar, surface reconnaissance and excavation within the mangrove-estuary zone, sediment coring, and a chronological framework encompassing nine ceramic complexes extending from Early Formative to Historic times. In presenting the landscape as it exists today, this volume also describes what may soon be lost. The mangrove forests harbor a record of the human past, a focus of the present volume, but they also shield the coast from storms and tsunamis, provide nurseries for commercially important marine species, and store large amounts of carbon. These threats may pale, however, in comparison to the imminent threat posed by sea-level rise over the coming decades, especially if worst-case scenarios come to pass. By inventorying resources, including cultural resources, this book makes a first step toward mitigating the effects of environmental degradation that appear all but unavoidable.
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1938-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
