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Title	Wooden ships and iron men : the story of the square-rigged merchant marine of British North America, the ships, their builders and owners and the men who sailed them
Author	Wallace, Frederick William, 1886-1958
Publisher	Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd.
Place of Publication	London, England ; Toronto, Ontario
Date	[1924]
Description	This book gives a brief history of square-rigged ships of the British North American merchant marine, an area of shipping history not previously well-covered. Many of the ships and crews the author writes about worked on the Grand Banks as a part of the Banks Fishery. -- This copy includes eight pages of illustrations from Blue Peter colour prints, tipped-in at the beginning.
Contents	Blue Peter colour prints: The China clippers. Cutty Sark ; Thermopylæ. The American clippers. Dreadnought ; Flying Cloud. The Boston clippers. James Baines ; Lightning. The Melbourne clipper. Carlisle Castle -- Chapter 1. The dawn of British North American shipping -- Chapter 2. The boom days of the 'fifties -- Chapter 3. The 'sixties in Quebec and New Brunswick shipping -- Chapter 4. The 'sixties in Nova Scotia--a period of expansion -- Chapter 5. The Bluenose fashion -- Chapter 6. The Nova Scotiamen of the palmy 'seventies -- Chapter 7. The 'seventies in New Brunswick shipping -- Chapter 8. The 'seventies in Quebec, Prince Edward Island and the lakes -- Chapter 9. The 'eighties in Nova Scotia shipping -- Chapter 10. The 'eighties in New Brunswick, Quebec and Prince Edward Island -- Chapter 11. The last of the Bluenose ships -- Appendix.
Subject	Sailing ships Shipbuilding--Canada Square riggers--Canada Ships, Wooden--Canada Merchant marine--Canada--History Merchant ships--Canada--History
Physical Description	xviii, 337, [26] p. of plates : front., ill.
Note	This copy contains several additional illustrations on p. [2], the title page, and p. [3] of cover.
Location	Canada--Nova Scotia Canada--New Brunswick Canada--Prince Edward Island Canada--Québec (Province) Great Lakes (North America)
Local Call Number	VK 26 W3 1924
Type	Text
Resource Type	Book
Format	Image/jpeg: Application/pdf
Record Number	CNS-B0302
Collection	Centre for Newfoundland Studies - Digitized Books.
Repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies
Language	Eng
Source	Paper text held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies
PDF File	(64.15MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/WoodenShipsIronMen.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	84035.cpd