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Great Lakes Saga by Anna G Young w/ dust jacket
Great Lakes Saga by Anna G Young
Hard Cover w dust jacket (dust jacket has damage
157 pages
Copyright 1965
CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1Father of Steam Navigation
Chapter 2The Mission of the Past
Chapter 3The Ships of Their Time
Chapter 4The Pace Quickens
Chapter 5Men of Their Time
Chapter 6The New Generation
Chapter 7The Changing Scene
Chapter 8"Great Beyond Their Knowing" Kipling
Chapter 9Northern Lights
Chapter 10The Emerging Present
Chapter 11A New Era
Epilogue
Appreciation
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index
FOREWORD
The history of navigation on our inland waterways is in very truth a "saga" - a story of heroic adventure and achievement. It is the story of the canoe, the bateau, the sailing vessel, the paddle-wheeler, the steamer, the tanker, the ocean-going craft of all registers which now ply half way across the continent.
Most of us are content to take for granted the geographic phenomena of the Great Lakes, their tributary streams and the St. Lawrence basin without pausing to consider their importance in the birth of our nation and the shaping of our heritage. Over great distances these waters not only form a natural boundary but a broad, if sometimes treacherous highway to the interior. They have fostered the fur trade, the timber trade, the early missions and settlements. Navies have sailed upon them, and command of their waters has determined the fortunes of war; their harbours have cradled villages which have expanded into towns and metropolitan ports of call.
To write the story of navigation on these inland waterways requires an unusual combination of talents. The narrator must have a fund of nautical knowledge preferably from first hand experience, an inquiring and retentive mind, the ability to seek out primary sources and sift them critically. Industry in collecting facts is not enough; implications must be grasped, the interconnection of seemingly unrelated elements. Finally, the creative imagination must be brought to bear upon the raw materials before the story can be made memorable.
Miss Anna Young has these qualifications. The daughter of a Great Lakes Purser, she has spent her life with ships and sailors and shipping companies. In her own lifetime she has seen many of the changes of which she writes, and has known personally those who helped to chart the latter course of navigation history. Much of the oral tradition of Great Lakes Shipping she wove into her earlier book of informal sketches, OFF WATCH (Ryerson, 1957).
But for the wider sweep of the present volume Miss Young goes beyond hearsay and oral tradition; she pursues historical research with the intrepidity of a voyageur scanning the horizon and pressing forward into terra incognita. She sighs over the mountains of sand she has had to sift to uncover one small nugget of gold. But it has been for her a labour of love.
It was her good fortune to have free access to the voluminous records of the Gildersleeve family of Kingston who for three generations between 1816 and 1931 played so prominent a part in Great Lakes transportation. Henry Gildersleeve (1776-1851) founder of the Canadian branch of the family was the son and grandson of shipbuilders in Connecticut. He brought to his craft ancient skills passed on from father to son along with pride in a great family tradition. These he, in turn, passed on to his sons Overton (1825-1864) and Charles (1833-1906) and to his grandson Henry Herchmer (1865-1933) . All were men of note such as were, in scriptural phrase, "renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding ... men furnished with ability ... honoured in their generations".
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