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The coasts of Canada : a history / by Lesley Choyce.

Title
The coasts of Canada : a history / by Lesley Choyce.
Author
Choyce, Lesley, 1951-
Publication
Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, c2002.

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Description
308 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Coasts > Canada > History
  • Seafaring life > Canada > History
  • Canada > History
  • Canada > History, Local
  • Atlantic Coast (Canada) > History
  • Pacific Coast (B.C.) > History
  • Arctic Coast (Canada) > History
  • Atlantique, Côte de l' (Canada) > Histoire
  • Pacifique, Côte du (C.-B.) > Histoire
  • Arctique, Côte de l' (Canada)xHistoire
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Local history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Where the land stops and the sea begins -- ch. 2. First to arrive -- ch. 3. The people of the raven -- ch. 4. Civilizations of the East coast -- ch. 5. From across the Atlantic -- ch. 6. The Northern coast of the new world -- ch. 7. In pursuit of the Northwest Passage -- ch. 8. Privlege, politics, greed, and a plague of mice 00 ch. 9. To explore and exploit -- ch. 10. Empires at war -- ch. 11. Reshaping the Atlantic shores -- ch. 12. A coastline of traders -- ch. 13. North of the revolution -- ch. 14. The sea of merchants and marauders -- ch. 15. The beauty of icebergs -- ch. 16. To chart the Arctic shores -- ch. 17. Pacific potential -- ch. 18. The sea in their blood -- ch. 19. The tides of change -- ch. 20. Opening the coast -- ch. 21. Northern conquests -- ch. 22. Sea of disasters -- ch. 23. On hardship's shores -- ch. 24. Between the wars -- ch. 25. The way years -- ch. 26. Winds of change, seas of grief -- ch. 27. A Northwest Passage of the heart.
ISBN
0864923600
LCCN
^^2003428779
OCLC
  • 50185968
  • SCSB-12689013
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library