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Tales from the Great Lakes [electronic resource] : based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days" / introduced and edited by Robert B. Townsend.
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world. C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781554883028 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1554883024 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 p.) : ill., ports.
- Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn Press, c1995.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. Selected articles written for Toronto's The evening telegram, 1931-1954. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgements; Introduction; Charles Henry Jeremiah Snider, 1879-1971, "The Skipper"; About the Old Schooners; Building a Schooner; Rigs; Stonehookers; Registration; The Fore-'n'-After; Whatchacallit; Fitting-Out Time Fifty Years Ago; Seagoing Teamsters; Making Hay in December; Port Credit; Sunday Scorching; Last Coal of Last Century; Brave Boat Work at Century's End; Chasing a Lithophone; Snider Mysteries; At the Foot of the Highlands; The Marysburgh; Perhaps This Solves the Highlands' Secret; Little Lady of Fifty-five Years Ago; Highland Creek and Rouge River; Port Union. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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