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| Ships & Boats: Fishing & Hunting Boats | |||
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Early Atlantic Whaling An exaggerated version of whaling off
Atlantic shores, in which Basques from Spain were active along the Labrador coast, from the
1550s onward. ID #10083 |
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Strait of Belle Isle Shipping in the Strait of Belle Isle, off
Newfoundland, 1810, with British warships, cargo vessels and American fishing craft
congregating. ID #10246 |
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Seal Hunting Seal hunting by sailing steamer, 1880s, with its
many hunters amid the icefields, spread north from Newfoundland-Labrador areas. ID #10030 |
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Japanese Confiscation R.C.N. officer questioning and
confiscating a Japanese-Canadian fishing boat off the British Columbia coast, December 9,
1941. ID #20944 |
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B.C. Fishing Fleet A fishing fleet off the British Columbia coast.
a major enterprise along Canada's west coast. ID #10026 |
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Monster Fleet Sails The grain fleet, leaving Port Arthur, May 2,
1912, through a Lake Superior ice field. ID #21700 |
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James Carruthers The James Carruthers, built in 1913 and hailed
as "the largest freighter in the British Empire" was launched at Collingwood,
Ontario. ID #20516 |
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Shipping Cattle Shipping cattle to the Orient, Vancouver, c.
1926. ID #21863 |
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Grain Transfer Transferring grain from the railroad to elevators
to waiting boats at the head of the Great Lakes. ID #21866 |
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