Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways, credited to William Wood, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Wood. Read in English by Maria Kasper; Scott Foster No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks and canoes the Eskimos and Indians used before the white man came, and use today; of the small craft moved by oar and sail that slowly displaced those moved only by the paddle; of the sailing vessels proper, and how they plied along Canadian waterways, and on all the Seven Seas; of the steamers, which shed so much forgotten lustre on Canadian enterprise; of the teeming fisheries which the far-seeing Lord Bacon rightly thought 'richer treasures than the mines of Mexico and of Peru'; of the Dominion's trade and government relations with nations that 'have their business in great waters'; and, finally, of that guardian Navy, without whose freely given care the 'water history' of Canada could never have been made at all. (Summary modified from the text)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
• Author credits: William Wood
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 3:59:51

Catalogue topics

• Canadian History
• Canada
• navy
• waterways
• watercraft

Track guide

1. 01 - A Land of Waterways — 21:40
2. 02 - Canoes — 35:12
3. 03 - Sailing Craft: The Pioneers — 19:09
4. 04 - Sailing Craft: Under the Fleurs-de-Lis — 20:31
5. 05 - Sailing Craft: Under the Union Jack — 20:15
6. 06 - Sailing Craft: The Building of the Ship — 11:25
7. 07 - Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part I — 21:29
8. 08 - Sailing Craft: 'Fit to Go Foreign' Part II — 22:38
9. 09 - Steamers — 28:47
10. 10 - Fisheries — 18:29
11. 11 - Administration — 8:45
12. 12 - Navies — 11:31

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