Anson Northup, the first steamboat on the Canadian prairies,
arrived in Fort Garry in 1859. Belching hot sparks and growling in
fury, it was called "fire canoe" by the local Cree. The first
steam-powered passenger vessel in Canada had begun service on the
St. Lawrence River in 1809, and for the next 150 years, steamboats
carried passengers and freight on great Canadian rivers, among them
the treacherous Stikine and Fraser in British Columbia; the Peace,
Athabasca and Red Rivers on the prairies; and the mighty St.
Lawrence and Saguenay in Ontario and Quebec. Travel back in time
aboard makeshift gold-rush riverboats in the Yukon, sternwheelers
on the Saskatchewan and luxurious liners in the St. Lawrence to the
decades when steamboats sent the echoes of whistles across a vast
land of powerful rivers.
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