The St. LawrenceOxford University Press, 1959 - 296 sider History of the St. Lawrence, Gananoque, Brockville, Morristown, Clayton, Kingston, Wolfe Island, Cape Vincent and Cornelia. |
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Side 69
... wind made their light craft bob helplessly on the waves ; great blocks of ice floated by with the tide , threatening to crush them . At last we found these masses of ice so firmly wedged together that it was impossible either to advance ...
... wind made their light craft bob helplessly on the waves ; great blocks of ice floated by with the tide , threatening to crush them . At last we found these masses of ice so firmly wedged together that it was impossible either to advance ...
Side 214
... wind . They reached Côteau du Lac in the morning and continued ( still without a pilot ) to buck a wind that was now a gale . They halted for a day at the Cedars to wait for the storm to end . But it didn't . Impatient to get on , and ...
... wind . They reached Côteau du Lac in the morning and continued ( still without a pilot ) to buck a wind that was now a gale . They halted for a day at the Cedars to wait for the storm to end . But it didn't . Impatient to get on , and ...
Side 233
... wind could turn it into a raging sea ) . Below the lake there was the tide to contend with and a dan- gerous open stretch of water above Quebec where gales blew up . But at last they would float safely into the owner's boom in one of ...
... wind could turn it into a raging sea ) . Below the lake there was the tide to contend with and a dan- gerous open stretch of water above Quebec where gales blew up . But at last they would float safely into the owner's boom in one of ...
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Algonquins arrived attack began boats bridge British building built called Canadian Canal cannon canoes captain Cartier Champlain CHAMPLAIN-Volume Château church cliff colony cove Donnacona English farms Father Le Jeune feet fire fleet floated forest France French Frenchmen Frontenac fur-trade furs governor guns habitants HERVEY SMYTH Hochelaga houses hundred Hurons Indians Iroquois Island Jesuit Jesuit Relations-Volume Kingdom of Saguenay Lachine Lake Ontario Lake St land later lived logs Long Sault Lower Town Marie miles Mohawks Montreal morning night Ottawa Ottawa River paddle passed Pointe-Lévy priest prisoners Quebec raft rapids reached Richelieu Richelieu River rock round Royal rushed sail seigneur seigniory settlement ship shot shouted side sight snow soldiers south shore St Charles St Lawrence steamer stood streets Tadoussac Three Rivers timber took trade trees turned Upper Canada Upper Town upriver vessels villages wind winter Wolfe's Cove woods wrote