Richard Tatley 304 pages hardcover
Steamboats once traveled all of Ontario's navigable waterways -- the
Great Lakes, the Ottawa River, the Rideau, the Kawarthas, the Muskoka
Lakes -- but nowhere did they find a greater variety of employment than
in the North. Here, steamboats served the lumber trade, brought settlers
to their new lands, transported produce to markets, and helped to make
possible the railways, the mining industry, paper mills, and tourism.
They were lifelines to isolated communities and remote island villages.
