Volume 23 - Section XII - ElectricCanadian.com

GENERAL INDEX 191constructed in colony, 2 608, 10 481 ;vessels celebration (1853), 14 407-8. Its beginningsold in West Indies, 15 55 ; comparative cost in Prince Edward Island, 13 315.of timber in Canada and France, 10 478-9 ; Shippegan Island. Skirted by Jacques Carder,extension and congested condition of St 131.Charles yard, 482 ; ten vessels built at Shipping. Special Article :Snipping andQuebec (1735), 2 509 ; ships built for royal Canals, 10 475-624. Early lines of settlenavy, 509, 10 482, 15 55 ; causes of dis ment determined by waterways, 359 ; thecontinuance of building for royal navy, 10 fur traders route, 476-7.482-3 ;Indian birch-bark canoe, 477-8 ; 15 French regime:regulations and prohibi46 n.tions relating to shipping of cargoes, 2Under British regime : yards at Detroit, 481-2; decree published requiring ships toNiagara, and Carleton Island, 10 486 ; pro carry labourers, and its evasion (1716), 507 ;vincial restrictions on size of ships on Lake a money payment substituted, 507 ;estiOntario (1788), 491 ; output at Carleton mated value of French imports before 1741,Island, 491-2 ;stimulated by War of 1812, 10 483 ;number of vessels trading with4 559, 10 492 ; opposing squadrons at battle France and West Indies, and their cargoes,of Lake Erie, 492 ; the Accommodation 483 ;trade with St Dominica and Martinique,launched at Montreal (1809), 494-5 ; joint 484 ; coasting trade of He Royale and Frenchstock company formed at Montreal to build West Indies, 484 ; importations of foodstuffssteam towboats (1823), 495-6 ;centres of to He Royale, 484 ;causes of its backwardwooden shipbuilding, 574 ;effect of abund condition, 484-5.ance of timber on industry, 574-5 ; changes During Revolutionary War : number ofdue to construction in iron and steel, 9 125, vessels10 586 ; progress in steel, 9 258 clearing at Quebec (1774, 1780), 485;fall in; impressment of merchant ships, 486 ;notonnage (1874-96), 188-9; opportunities for ships to pass without proper passports, 486 ;development of steel construction, 10 586-7 ; regulations permittingyards in the several provinces, 586-8 transport of freightGreat in;government ships, and their abuse, 486-7 ;Lakes establishments, 587-8 ;Duke of Connaughtdry dock at Montreal, 587 ;protest of traders against continuance offacilities regulations after close of war, and the reply,in British Columbia, 588.487.Quebec centre of timber and shipbuilding Steam Navigation its beginnings on::industry, 575 ; ships and their tonnage lower St Lawrence, 494-6 ;on Lake Ontario,(1800-11), 575 ; effect of War of 1812, 575 ;496-500 ;on the Ottawa and the Rideau,statistics of development (1824-40), 575 ;500 ;on Lake Erie, 501 ; causes of expandecline in forties and return of prosperity, sion after 1825, 501-2 ;decline in St Law576 ; number of yards and floating docks rence as result of abolition of Canadian(1852), 576; vessels launched and tonnage preference, 372 ;beginning(1853), 576; number of men of steamshipemployed in lines, 537-40 ; cheap passenger rate throughfifties, 576 ; spurt given by notice of abroga excessive competition, 425, 541 ; burningtion of reciprocity, 577 ; causes of decline, of the Montreal, 541-2 ; importance of577 ;effort to secure improved rating at Buffalo-Chicago route, 542 ; slow developLloyd s, 577-8 ; inferiority of Canadian to ment of Canadian traffic on. upper lakes,English oak, 577 ; use of tamarac in, 577 ;542 ; early steam vessels and their routesLloyd s appoint a special surveyor, 578 ;on upper lakes, 543-4, 546 ;cause of combeauty and speed of Quebec-built clippers, parative smallness of Canadian shipping on578-9 ; profits eaten up by interest and com Lake Erie, 544 ;effect of advent of railways,missions, 579 ; rise and collapse of prices 539, 544-5, 548-9 ; early railway steamboats(1854), 579; graving-dock accommodation and their routes, 545-6 ;car ferry transportat, 587. See also above, under New France. service, 547-8 ; traders preference forMaritime Provinces :change in system of Buffalo route for wheat transportation,ownership, 580 ; statistics before and after 549-50 ; division of traffic between Americaniron and steel construction, 580 ; exhaustion and Canadian interests, 550 ; tonnageof hackmatac ofcauses spruce to be employed, steam shipping on lakes, 9 289 ; presentdayGreat Lake lines, 10 550-8.586. Nova Scotia : rise of industry, 10 582 ;at Shelburne, 13 238 ; dates from war with Great Lakes :priorFrench to Revolutionary War,Republic, 254 ; bounty voted to 485-6 ; strength of naval establishmentprovince-built ships (1785), 255; methodadopted in construction and (1782), 487 ; armament on Lakes Ontario,sale, and its Erie, and Huron, 487-8 ; freight earningsinfluence on ofinhabitants, 255-6 ; cause of government vessels (1777-79), 488 ; clearingsdecay, 14 386-7, 399 its ; leadership in ship from Kingston (1793), 488 ; effect of loyalistbuilding and navigation, in proportion to influx, 488-9 ; transportation by bateaux,population, 9 125 ; plans for establishments 489 ;cost of freight of a barrel of rum fromin, 10 586-7. New Brunswick : rise of Lachine to Kingston, 489 ;introduction ofindustry, 583-5 ; increase in, after coming Durham boat (1809), 490; beginning ofof loyalists, 13 182 ; its association with schooner service, 490-1 ; provincial assemblytimber trade, 10 583 ; construction and restricts size of vessels on Lake Ontario totonnage (1853), 583 ; number of ship 90 tons, 491 ; compositionwrights who took part in St John of opposingrailway squadrons at battle of Lake Erie, 492 ;