Bold Privateers
Subtitle: Terror, Plunder and Profit on Canada's Atlantic Coast
Publisher: Formac
Published: October 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780887806445
Subjects: Nova Scotia; Transportation; Maritime History; Canada - General; History - General History; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Privateering; Military - Naval; 29; 30; 31; History / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867); privateers; Canada; 18th century; Atlantic Coast (Canada); History
First sentence: On an icy spring morning in early April 1686, 35 heavy, deeply laden bark canoes drove against the raging spring flood of the Ottawa River, voyaging west from the town of Montreal towards distant Lake Temiscaming and the unexplored lands beyond.