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Fire Canoe - Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Fire Canoe - Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the
voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the
Prairies. Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated
inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the
shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie waterways. Their
operators were businessmen hoping to reap the benefits of
commercial enterprise along the shores and banks of Canada’s
inland lakes and rivers. Their passengers were fur traders,
adventure-seekers, and immigrants opening up the West. All of them
sought their futures and fortunes aboard Prairie steamboats,
decades before the railways arrived and took credit for the
breakthrough. Aboriginal people called them “fire canoes,” but
in the latter half of the nineteenth century, their operators
promoted them as Mississippi-type steamship queens delivering
speedy transport, along with the latest in technology and comfort.
Then, as the twentieth century dawned, steamboats and their
operators adapted. They launched smaller, more tailored steamers
and focused on a new economy of business and pleasure in the West.
By day their steamboats chased freight, fish, lumber, iron ore,
real estate, and gold-mining contracts. At night, they brought out
the Edwardian finery, lights, and music to tap the pleasure-cruise
market.
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