Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited

Years before railroads arrived, the Canadian West was opened up by an unlikely breed of ship: steamboats plying Prairie waterways. Their aboriginal pilots, experts at reading the tricky waterways, called the ships "fire canoes." By day they chased freight contracts, but at night they introduced the Edwardian Prairies to pleasure cruises.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 10/20/2015
ISBN: 9781459732087
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d