CHAPTER XI 



NAVIES 



THIS is not the place to discuss the naval 

 side of craft and waterways in Canada. That 

 requires a book of its own. But no study of 

 Canada's maritime interests, however short, 

 can close without a passing reference to her 

 naval history. 



When the Kirkes, with their tiny flotilla, 

 took Quebec from Champlain's tiny garrison 

 in 1629 the great guiding principles of sea- 

 power were as much at work as when Phips 

 led his American colonists to defeat against 

 Frontenac in 1690, or as when Saunders and 

 Wolfe led the admirably united forces of their 

 enormous fleet and little army to victory in 

 1759. In the same way the decisive influence 

 of sea-power was triumphantly exerted by 

 Iberville, the French naval hero of Canada, 

 when, with his single ship, the Pelican, he 

 defeated his three British opponents in a gallant 

 fight; and so, for the time being, won the 



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