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Show 4538 2557 Q Which of the Canadian waterways have you been on? A I touched the Canadian waterways originally in my first voyage. I went to the source of the Columbia, heading near Lake Windemere in British Columbia, followed that north between the Rockies and Selkirks on the route of Thompson and the old Hudson Bay explorers. Turning south and crossing the American line, I followed the river down to tidewater at Portland. That was the first Canadian river I touched and voyaged. Several years later, in 1924, I took a small boat with an out- board motor, sixteen- foot boat, decked over carefully against storms, ran that with the out- board motor from Milwaukee to New York. That was the route of Goliet and La Salle and Marquette. I voyaged up Lake Michigan, through the Straits of Mackinac, thence to Georgian Bay. Then there is a series of canals and lakes and rivers called the Trent canal, in which about forty looks occur in a distance of twenty- five miles. This takes one from Georgian Bay, cutting out Lake Huron and Erie, leaving one at the head of the St. Lawrence. Then I voyaged down the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Richelieu, which drains Lake Champlain, running the numerous rapids on that river, most of which are passed now by canal. I continued up the Richelieu to Lake Champlain, and thence by the New York barge canal to the Hudson, and on to New York. |