Product Description
In “Steamboat Connections”, Frank Mackey gives us a narrative account of the first twenty-five years of steam navigation along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. Relying on a wealth of primary archival sources, Mackey focuses on the development of steamer traffic from 1816 – when the foundations were laid for the first stage-and-steamboat line between Montreal and Upper Canada – to the early 1840s – when locks, canals, innovations, and human daring conquered the rap… More >>
Steamboat Connections: Montreal to Upper Canada, 1816-1843
Symington and the Steamboat
Steamboat Springs Travel Guide
Disney Animated Shorts, 1920s: Plane
Lloyd’s steamboat directory, and
Robert Fulton: Savant of Steamboats and
#1 by Midwest Book Review on May 10, 2010 - 4:28 pm
Researched and written by Frank Mackey, Steamboat Connections: Montreal To Upper Canada is a thoroughly detailed, highly recommended, 383-page nautical history covering the first twenty-five years of steamboat travel on the Ottawa and upper St. Lawrence Rivers. Drawing extensively upon archival sources, Steamboat Connections evaluates the gradual transformation of steamer transportation from 1816 to the early 1840s, and offers the reader a glimpse into the fiery spirit of those entrepreneurs who first blazed a steamboat river trail.
Rating: 5 / 5