Fire canoes : steamboats on great Canadian rivers / Anthony Dalton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalton, Anthony, author.

Series:

Amazing stories (Surrey, B.C.)

Amazing stories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

River steamers--Canada--History.

River steamers.

Steam-navigation--Canada--History.

Steam-navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Heritage, [2012]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-927051-46-0