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1000 Islands / photographs by John De Visser ; text by Patricia Fleming.

Title
1000 Islands / photographs by John De Visser ; text by Patricia Fleming.
Author
De Visser, John
Publication
Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press, 1990.

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TextRequest in advance F127.T5 D4 1990Off-site

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Additional Authors
Fleming, Patricia, 1923-
Description
118 p. : col. ill., map, col. ports.; 29 cm.
Summary
Description of area and travel, 1000 Islands.
Subject
  • Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.) > Pictorial works
  • Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.) > History
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Pictorial works
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The 1,000 islands -- Natural surroundings -- Settling the 1,000 islands area -- Timber-rafting in the early 1800s -- The building of Kingston -- Gunboats on the St. Lawrence -- Cape Vincent's French past -- The St. Lawrence skiff -- Guardians of the river -- Gananoque: gateway to the 1,000 islands -- The Gananoque mailboat -- Juniper and Thwartway -- The best old boats come to Clayton -- The Sir Robert Peel & pirate Bill Johnston -- The 1,000 Islands International Bridge -- Madawaska summertime -- The lost channel -- 1,000 Island Park -- Alexandria Bay -- Boldt Castle -- Catching the big one -- The marshes and the mainlands -- Brockville: RiverFest city -- Touring the river.
ISBN
1550460447 :
LCCN
cn^90093882^
OCLC
  • 21448265
  • SCSB-11557429
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library