Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
Author: first_name:  William
last_name: Wood
Language: English
Year: 1915

No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks and canoes the Eskimos and Indians used before the white man came, and use today; of the small craft moved by oar and sail that slowly displaced those moved only by the paddle; of the sailing vessels proper, and how they plied along Canadian waterways,