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Title: My Fellow Canadians "Fire Canoe"
Post by: T.J. on January 26, 2006, 05:34:18 AM

I'm gona fell real stupid if you guys say we new that. I just found a really great book on Canadian Riverboats. Which I didn't know we really had much of a history on riverboats. It's called Fire Canoe Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited written by Theodore Barris and was written in 1977. I just thought you might want to check it out.   T.J.

Title: My Fellow Canadians "Fire Canoe"
Post by: PJ on January 26, 2006, 01:06:33 PM

'Fraid so. TJ...I've been researching paddler books  for four years now and have developed a database of nearly 400.  When I hit  "Canadian Prairies", the following books popped up in addition to your "FIRE  CANOE" and you might like to check them out. Although I own a copy of "Fire  Canoe", I don't as yet own any of the books listed below.
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 STEAMBOATS ON THE  SASKATCHEWAN, Bruce Peel
 
RIBBON OF WATER AND STEAMBOATS NORTH - a  History of Fort McMurray Alberta, D. J. Comfort
PADDLE WHEELS TO BUCKET - WHEELS  ON THE ATHABASCA, J.G. MacGregor
and there  eventually be more that I have not yet discovered.
PJ
Victoria, BC, Canada
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I'm gona fell real stupid if you guys say we new that.    I just found a really great book on Canadian Riverboats. Which I didn't know    we really had much of a history on riverboats. It's called Fire Canoe Prairie    Steamboat Days Revisited written by Theodore Barris and was written in 1977. I    just thought you might want to check it out. T.J.



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Title: My Fellow Canadians "Fire Canoe"
Post by: thewharfonline on January 29, 2006, 01:18:55 PM

I read in a book that Canadian riverboat men were fierce driving their boats nonstop through no matter what kind of river! I think our rivermen are a cross between missouri and candian river men...oh except that alot of our greatest river men were scandinavian.