Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited

by Ted Barris

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459732081
• ISBN13: 9781459732087
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"