Great Lakes, Great Rivers
Author: International Association for Great Lakes Research
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Published: 2000
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Published: 2000
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 185
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis document presents the program as well as the abstracts of all the sessions of the Conference which was hosted by the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences in Cornwall, Ontario.
Author: International Association for Great Lakes Research
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 185
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 192
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0814338356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Author: Nature Conservancy (U.S.). Great Lakes Program
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 44
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