Illustrations

Figures

Figure 1.1: Key resources as identified on 1828 Shubenacadie canal survey map. Map by authors.

Figure 1.2: The William D. Lawrence under construction, 1874. Ships: W.D. Lawrence, N-5303, Photo Collection, Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.

Figure 1.3: Forest cover in Maitland district as described in B.E. Fernow, Forest Conditions of Nova Scotia (Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Crown Lands, 1912). Map by authors, using GIS data provided by Nova Scotia, Department of Natural Resources, “Geographic Information Systems—Fernow Forest Cover,” accessed 14 January 2015, http://novascotia.ca/natr/forestry/gis/fernow.asp.

Figure 2.1: Postcard of the “fast line” frozen in place, February 1905. “Maritime Express Fast in the Snow on Folleigh Mountain, February 1905” (Moncton: P.D. Ayer & Company, n.d). Author’s collection.

Figure 2.2: Snowsheds on the Intercolonial Railway, 1876. From sketches by Reverend T. Fenwick, Canadian Illustrated News, 2 December 1876, p. 332.

Figure 2.3: Luring sportsmen to the Intercolonial line. “Some Miramichi Beauties—Intercolonial Route,” in Intercolonial Railway Company, Forest, Stream and Seashore (1908), 83.

Figure 3.1: Ontario’s Muskoka region, c. 1910. Map by author.

Figure 3.2: The Constance, the supply boat for the Homer & Co. general store, c. 1900. Photograph Collection, Muskoka Steamship and Historical Society, Gravenhurst.

Figure 3.3: The Constance’s lower deck, c. 1900. Photograph Collection, Muskoka Steamship and Historical Society, Gravenhurst.

Figure 4.1: Freight swing with snowplow in northern Saskatchewan, c. 1930. R-A17096, Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, Regina.

Figure 4.2: Sturgeon River Forest Reserve map, c. 1925. Friends of Prince Albert National Park, Waskesiu.

Figure 5.1: Lake St. Lawrence and the Lost Villages. Map by author.

Figure 5.2: Moses-Saunders dam under construction, c. 1956. HEPCO Collection, Ontario Power Generation, Toronto.

Figure 5.3: Plans for New Town No. 2 (Long Sault). HEPCO Collection, Ontario Power Generation, Toronto.

Figure 5.4: St. Lawrence Seaway channel at Kahnawake, c. 1960. St. Lawrence Seaway Authority fonds, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

Figure 5.5: Old road into Aultsville near the former intersection with Highway 2. Photo by author.

Figure 5.6: St. Lawrence Seaway at Montreal. St. Lawrence Seaway Authority fonds, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

Figure 6.1: Cut-and-cover subway construction along Yonge Street, c. 1949. Item 6650-6, file 31, series 381, fonds 16, City of Toronto Archives.

Figure 6.2: Yonge Street subway geology display at Royal Ontario Museum, c. 1955. Item 12711-3, file 320, series 381, fonds 16, City of Toronto Archives.

Figure 6.3: Subway spoil disposal locations, 1949–1968. Map by Steven Langlois and University of Saskatchewan HGIS Laboratory.

Figure 7.1: Map of border cities, including the proposed development of Ojibway. Federal Map of Detroit and Environs (Detroit: Federal Lithograph Co., c. 1920).

Figure 7.2: US Steel advertisement for the town of Ojibway. Windsor Evening Record, 30 May 1913.

Figure 7.3: View of Zug Island from old ferry terminal in Sandwich. Photo by authors.

Figure 7.4: Map showing proposed location of new crossing and parkway through Windsor. Map by authors.

Figure 8.1: Map of Union Steamship Company routes along the BC coast, 1952. Box 1, file 1, Union Steamship Collection, Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Figure 8.2: Aboriginal cannery workers face crowded conditions on the Camosun, c. 1923. VMM48.01.C01, Camosun (I) 15259, Leonard McCann Collection, Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Figure 8.3: The S.S. Cardena at Butedale salmon cannery, c. 1935. CVA 374-16, Union Steamship Co. Collection, City of Vancouver Archives.

Figure 8.4: Corvette purchased by the United Steamship Company after World War II. Vol. 30, no. 22, Union Steamship Co. Collection, City of Vancouver Archives.

Figure 8.5: Excursionists aboard the Lady Alexandra at Britannia. CVA 374-182, Union Steamship Co. Collection, City of Vancouver Archives.

Figure 8.6: The S.S. Chilcotin. United Steamship Company, Cruising 10 Pleasure-Filled Days On Board S.S. Chilcotin (Vancouver, 1951), Union Steamship Collection, Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Figure 9.1: American Canoe Association encampments, 1880–1903. Map by Eric Leinberger.

Figure 9.2: Home away from home at the 1891 ACA meet. “A Tent Interior,” 1891, box 1.2, file 18, American Canoe Association Collection, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown.

Figure 9.3: Competitors and spectators at the 1890 ACA meet. S.R. Stoddard, “Visitors Day,” in Glimpses of the ACA (Glens Falls, NY: S.R. Stoddard, 1890), Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.

Figure 10.1: Toronto Golf Club at second location. Postcard, c. 1905. Author’s collection.

Figure 10.2: The expanded Banff golf course. Detail of advertisement in American Golfer, May 1933, 51.

Figure 10.3: The tee shot at “Cleopatra,” the ninth hole on the Jasper Lodge golf course. Canadian National Railways, Golf at Jasper in the Canadian Rockies (Ottawa, 1928). Author’s collection.

Figure 11.1: Montage of CPR hotels as icons of civilization set against a natural backdrop. Canadian Pacific Railway, Summer Tours by the Canadian Pacific Railway (Montreal, 1894). Toronto Reference Library.

Figure 11.2: A passenger train in full steam travels over the Stoney Creek chasm. Canadian Pacific Railway, The Canadian Pacific: The New Highway to the Orient (Montreal, 1890). Toronto Reference Library.

Figure 11.3: The Banff Springs Hotel. Canadian Pacific Railway, Resorts in the Canadian Pacific Rockies (Montreal, 1926). Author’s collection.

Figure 11.4: Several of the CPR’s nine bungalow camps in the Rocky Mountains. Canadian Pacific Railway, Bungalow Camps in the Canadian Rockies (Montreal, c. 1929). Author’s collection.

Figure 11.5: CPR bungalow camps and Banff-Windermere Highway, 1929. Map by Steven Langlois and University of Saskatchewan HGIS Laboratory, after original by James Mallinson.

Figure 12.1: Cover of a Quebec guide featuring a landscape scene from Charlevoix. Welcome to the Province of Québec (Quebec: Road Department, Provincial Tourist Bureau, c. 1930). Author’s collection.

Figure 12.2: 1920 road map. T.J. Kirk, Road Map of the Province of Ontario and International Main Travelled Routes (Hamilton: Ontario Motor League, compiled by J.W. Tyrell & Co. Land Surveyors & Civil Engineers, 1920).

Figure 12.3: Cap Gros-Morne postcard from the 1940s. Author’s collection.

Figure 12.4: Cover. Beautiful Ontario, Canada’s Premier Province: The Lakeland Playground of America (Toronto: Travel and Publicity Bureau, 1932). Author’s collection.

Figure 12.5: Saint-Paul-des-Capucins, near Cap-Chat on the Gaspé Peninsula. Daniel Putnam Brinley drawing, in Gordon Brinley, Away to the Gaspé (New York: Dodd, 1935), 38–39.

Tables

Table 1.1: Number and tonnage of vessels built in Maitland, 1840–1890 (Data from Windsor, Nova Scotia, Registrar of Shipping, RG 42-E-1, LAC; Maitland, Nova Scotia, Registrar of Shipping, RG 42-E-1, LAC; Burgess, “List of Vessels”).

Table 1.2: Number and average tonnage of vessels built in each village in Windsor Shipping Registry.