Canoe: Indian, 15, 16; birch-bark, 17, 18, 20-4; Canadian, 25; keeled,
25-6; gives place to the boat, 28-30; a voyage in, 33-6.
Cape Horn, a voyage round, 119-28.
Cartier, Jacques, in the Gulf, 16, 46; compared with modern
hydrographers, 47, 177; his ship, 48-9.
Champlain, Samuel de, 30; first to advocate the Panama Canal, 54; his
record voyage, 55, 101-2, 177.
Chanties, the seaman's working songs, 110-13, 128.
'Charlotte Dundas,' pioneer steamer, 130.
'Clermont,' an early steamer, 130.
Clippers, a race with, from China to London, 102-3.
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, the great French minister, 57, 59, 60.
Conquest, importance of the Navy in the, 13.
Cook, Captain, British navigator, 14; makes a survey of the St Lawrence
and Gulf, 177-8.
Coureurs de bois, the, 32.
Cunard brothers, merchants in Halifax, 138, 145, 146.
Cunard, Samuel, founds the Cunard Line, 145-6.
Derby, Elias, the first American millionaire, 70.
Devonshire ships, annual round of, 67.
'Don de Dieu,' Champlain's ship, 55.
Dory, the, 27; the schooner's tender, 159-61.
Drake, Sir Francis, sails round the world, 52.
'Dreadnought,' her record run, 102.
Dug-out, the, 18, 19-20.
Durham boat, the, 27-8.
East India Docks in London, famous clipper race to, 102-3.
Egyptians, as shipbuilders, 49, 50, 86.
'Empress of Ireland,' loss of, with over a thousand lives, off
Rimouski, 151.
English-speaking people, sea terms in speech of, 8-9.
Eskimos, and whaling, 164.
Fletcher of Rye, his nautical invention, 46-7, 50.
Fort Langley, Simpson reaches, 40.
Fort St James, Simpson's royal progress at, 39-40.
French Canadians, sea terms in speech of, 10; and whaling, 58-9, 164.
'Frontenac,' the, on the Great Lakes, 135.
Fur trade under the French and the British, 31-3; voyages in connection
with, 33, 37-40.
'Galiote,' the, built by the Sovereign Council, 59.
George V, his voyage across the Atlantic, 102.
Germany, her navy, 182-3, 187.
Goudie, James, builder of the 'Royal William,' 137-8, 139, 141.
'Grace Carter,' her record trip, 102.
'Grande Hermine,' Cartier's ship, 49, 50.
Grand Portage, the, 31.
Great Britain, preponderance of her ships, 7-8, 51; her command of the
sea, 15, 53, 56-7, 73, 76, 102, 177; weakness of her Board of Trade
regulations, 99; her tonnage under construction in 1913, 153; her
consular service for Canada, 176; colonial contributions to the Royal
Navy, 183-8.
Great Lakes, why called, 1; the first vessel on, 60; trade on, 71-3.
'Great Republic,' her canvas, 105.
Grenfell, Dr, in Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, 172.
Halifax, lumbering and shipbuilding at, 70; privateers of, 182.
'Hamilton Campbell Kidston,' a famous ship, 80.
Hare, Dr, in Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, 172.
Hell ships, 94-5, 98.
Hennepin, Father, his description of 'Le Griffon,' 61.
Henry, John, a Quebec founder, 137-8.
Henry, Commodore, and the 'Royal William,' 143.
'Hercules,' a tug, 134.
Hudson Bay, conflicts between French and British in, 62-3; place for
fur, 64.
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