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COPYRIGHT 2006 Ontario Historical Society
Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur, 1850-1950.
By Pierre Camu, with preface by Hugues Morrissette. Montreal: Editions Hurtubise HMH Ltee, 2005. 616 pp. $69.95 softcover. ISBN 2-89428-679-1.
Developed as a sequel to Pierre Camu's first monumental, award-winning work, The Saint Lawrence and the Great Lakes in the Era of Sailing Ships, 1608-1850, this second volume by the former seaway administrator and geographer represents another major contribution to our understanding of the economic history of this vast continental waterway system. This book, its title translated as The Saint Lawrence and the Great Lakes in the Era of Steam Navigation, 1850-1950, is big, at 616 pages, with 173 tables, 91 maps and graphs, and 64 black-and-white photographs, mostly of ships. It covers both Canadian and American subjects, with substantial Ontario detail. A thematic and geographic...
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