E-text prepared by Al Haines Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24808-h.htm or 24808-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/8/0/24808/24808-h/24808-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/8/0/24808/24808-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book. For its Index, a page number has been placed only at the start of that section. Chronicles of Canada Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In Thirty-two volumes 31 ALL AFLOAT by WILLIAM WOOD Part IX National Highways [Frontispiece: THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING. From a painting by Verner] ALL AFLOAT A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by WILLIAM WOOD Toronto Glasgow, Brook & Company 1915 Copyright in all Countries subscribing to the Berne Convention TO THE PETRYS EACH AND ALL IN TOKEN OF A FAMILY FRIENDSHIP FOUR GENERATIONS STRONG {ix} CONTENTS Page I. A LAND OF WATERWAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. CANOES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 III. SAILING CRAFT; THE PIONEERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 IV. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS . . . . . . 54 V. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE UNION JACK . . . . . . . . 68 VI. SAILING CRAFT: THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP . . . . . . 82 VII. SAILING CRAFT: 'FIT TO GO FOREIGN' . . . . . . . . 92 VIII. STEAMERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 IX. FISHERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 X. ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 XI. NAVIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 {xi} [Transcriber's note: The page numbers below are those in the original book. However, in this e-book, to avoid the splitting of paragraphs, the illustrations may have been moved to preceding or following pages.] ILLUSTRATIONS THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ From a painting by Verner. THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Facing page_ 12 By Lorado Taft, in the Chicago Art Institute. SHIPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . . . . . . . . . . . " 44 From Winsor's 'America.' CHAMPLAIN'S SHIP, THE 'DON DE DIEU' . . . . . . . . " 54 From the model at the Quebec Tercentenary. A FRENCH FRIGATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . . . . . " 64 From Winsor's 'America.'