BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 



All Afloat seems to be the only book of its 

 kind. Not only this, but no other book seems to 

 have been written on the special subject of any 

 one of its eleven chapters. There are many books 

 in which canoes figure largely, but none which 

 gives the history of the canoe in Canada. Books 

 on sailing craft, on steamers, on fisheries, on 

 every aspect of maritime administration, and, 

 most of all, on navies, are very abundant. But, so 

 far, none of them seems to have been devoted 

 exclusively to the Canadian part of these various 

 themes, with the single exception of a purely 

 naval work, The Logs of the Conquest of Canada, 

 by the present author, who has consequently been 

 obliged to write a good deal from his own ex- 

 perience with paddle, sail, and steam. Of course 

 there are many excellent articles, some of con- 

 siderable length, in the Transactions of several 

 learned societies, like the Royal Society of 

 Canada, the Literary and Historical Society of 

 Quebec, the Nova Scotia Historical Society, the 

 Ontario Historical Society, and so on. There are 

 also a certain number of pamphlets and official 

 bluebooks— like those of the department of 



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