Steam Navigation and Its Relation to the Commerce of Canada and the United States
STEAM NAVIGATION.
James Croil ,
MONTREAL.
Author of “Dundas: A Sketch of Canadian History.”
With Illustrations and Portraits .
TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS. MONTREAL: THE MONTREAL NEWS COMPANY, Limited 1898.
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by William Briggs, at the Department of Agriculture.
This Volume is dedicated by permission to His Excellency the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., G.C.M.G., etc., Governor-General of Canada from 1893 to 1898, a nobleman who will long be gratefully remembered as the benefactor and friend of all classes of the community, and who, with his Consort, The Countess of Aberdeen, LL.D. will always be associated by the Canadian people with a period in their history of great national prosperity, their joint efforts in furthering lofty ideals having done much to advance the highest interests of the Dominion.
WHEN the history of the nineteenth century comes to be written, not the least interesting chapter of it will be that which treats of the origin, the development, and the triumphs of Steam Navigation—that mighty combination of inventive genius and mechanical force that has bridged the oceans and brought the ends of the earth together.
James Croil
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PREFACE.
The Dawn of Steamship Navigation.
The “Clermont.”
The “Royal William.”
The “Sirius” and “Great Western.”
The “Great Britain” and “Great Eastern.”
The Screw-Propeller.
The Collins Line.
The Inman and International Line.
The Red Star Line,
The Anchor Line.
The National Steam Navigation Company.
The Guion Line.
The White Star Line.
Continental Lines.
The Hamburg-American Packet Company,
The North German Lloyd Company.
The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique,
The Netherlands Line,
The Thingvalla Line,
The Peninsular and Oriental Company,
Steamship Lines to Africa.
West Indies and Pacific Lines.
The Canadian Trans-Pacific Steamships.
Marine Distances.
Sunday at Sea.
Icebergs and Tidal Waves.
The Allan Line.
The Dominion Line.
The Beaver Line.
Canadian Fast Atlantic Service.
The Canadian Canals.
The Welland Canal.
Sault Ste. Marie Ship Canals.
The Erie Canal.
Canadian Commerce on the Great Lakes.
The Transportation Business.
Deeper Waterways.
Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal.
In the Province of Quebec.
On the Ottawa River.
Dominion Steamers.
General Summary.
The World’s Steamers.
Conclusion.
APPENDICES.
I. CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON.
II. THE WHALEBACK
III. THE TURRET STEAMSHIP.
IV. WATER JET SYSTEM OF PROPULSION.
V. THE CIGAR STEAMBOAT.
VI. THE ROLLER STEAMBOAT.
VII. THE “TURBINIA.”
INDEX.
