Note: Missing Pages 252, 272, and 279. / It is scarcely necessary to stress the prime importance to Canadian history of the existence of the St. Lawrence River and its tributaries, providing lines of communication for the development of trade and settlement. From the earliest days of French exploration in North America, men have been excited by the prospect of the vast waterway stretching from the Gulf far into the interior of the continent. Even the ‘Lakehead’ , the westernmost extremity of Lake Superior, did not mark the limit restricting further extension of waterborne commerce, since the earliest travellers and traders employed the canoe, the product of native ingenuity, in making their way westwards, while the portage, by-passing navigational obstructions, became a common feature attending the conduct of the trade in Canada’s first staple.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113577 |
| Date | January 1961 |
| Creators | Wilson, George. H. |
| Contributors | Cooper, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of History.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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