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Atom This is a first attempt to trace the life of George Henry Wyatt. He has previously been known only for his work procuring and administering the ...
Anthropologists have long relied on field studies in support of their research. For the students of the discipline, fieldwork remains a particularly ...
The Torrance family's correspondence in the collection of papers by Robert M. Powell and his family at Library and Archives Canada must be recognized ...
The compound marine steam engine, although developed as early as the 1820s, did not see widespread use on the Great Lakes until the late 1860s. This ...
The French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) had a small rigged sailing coaster built in 1679 to travel between the Niagara River and ...
During the War of 1812, the American Navy was still in its developmental stage, from the point of view of its policies and traditions. An obvious ...
From 2003 to 2007, a team of volunteers at the Maritime Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario, renovated a 28-foot wooden boat that was once ...
Elizabeth Whitney Williams grew up on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. She became guardian of the lighthouse of the port of this island in ...
The shipbuilding industry in Toronto produced over one-third of the naval vessels built on Canada's Great Lakes during the Second World War. At its ...
During the Second World War, urban centers and industrial centers in central Canada, such as Hamilton, began production of materials to meet the ...
From the early days of European expansion into the Great Lakes region, the batteau was an essential part of the transportation system. This ...
Chapter 1 of O. M. Meehan, The Canadian Hydrographic Service From the time of its Inception in 1883 to the end of the Second World War The ...
In 1759, Louis-Pierre Poulin de Courval Cressé undertook the construction of three corvettes at the shipyard at Point au Baril (at Maitland, in ...
The growth of the Canadian Great Lakes transportation industry is matched by the growth of the Canadian economy as a whole in the first six decades ...
There is quite a literature about shipwrecks at sea or in the confined waters of gulfs, deltas or rivers. Indeed, wrecks have long exerted a ...
Prohibition brought with it opportunities for many people to make easy money in the rum- running business. One ofthe largest problems with enforcing ...
Neglected in the history of the Canadian-American experience on Great Lakes waters, the acerbic and at times violent interaction between American ...
The broadsheets and nautical journals of the mid-nineteenth century register shipwrecks with the same detachment that can be read in the daily ...
This article began as a piece of local history. Jeff Wallace, now a Sudbury lawyer, spent his childhood summers near Little Current on the Manitoulin ...
After applauding land successes at Detroit and Queenston, Strachan condemned the inability of the Provincial Marine to operate as an effective naval ...
In response to the pleas of Governor General George Prevost, in the spring of 1813 the Admiralty sent Commodore James Lucas Yeo and 447 men of the ...
Those with an interest in the maritime history of the Great Lakes may well agree that while stories abound, historical writings are more scarce. ...
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