Fire canoe : prairie steamboat days Remembered
by Barris Ted
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Dundurn Press,, 2015. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed and Inscribed By Author. 2nd Edition. 8 vo,. cloth, dust jacket, gilt spine, pp., xii,356 p.,6 pp.,illustrated, (16 pp black & white ills from photographs, maps, biblography, index, signed & inscribed by the author on t.p., "For Tarah...How the West Was Won, Ted Barris, 2016. Reprint. Originally published: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, ©1977. CONTENTS: Prologue 1 First Down the Red 2 The Scot, the Wolf, and the Honourable Company 3 Paddles of Peace and War 4 Walterdale Steam 5 Saskatchewan Tramp Steamers,6 The Queer Apple 7 J.K. Cornwall and his N.T.C. 8 Dontianen Lives 9 Laird of the Saskatchewan 10 In Defiance of la Bete Noire 11 On the Sixth Great Lake Epilogue Notes Bibliography Chronology IndexYears 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..
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- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11257947
- Title
- Fire canoe : prairie steamboat days Remembered
- Author
- Barris Ted
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2015
- Size
- 8 vo,
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- River steamers -- Prairie Provinces -- History.Lake steamers -- Prairie Provinces -- History.Lake steamers.River steamers. Prairie Provinces.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Railroads/Transportation;
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