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Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century,
version 3.0 (ISBN 0-9698488-8-2)		  
 
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   What does it cover? Version 3.0 centers around preserving our maritime history as it was read, known and understood during the first sixty years of the 19th century, i.e., exactly as it was publishing in the various national newspapers, recorded in Notary Public acts, Vice Admiralty Court Cases, or handwritten and delivered to the Quebec Reading Room, shipping masters offices, etc.
    This edition includes over 7,000 pages in 8½" x 11" format. While the original text remains intact, browser friendly pages were redesigned for easy hyper-linked access. The following is a partial list of subjects covered:
  1. - The Table-of-Contents (ToC) included 9,809 hyperlinks and connects you directly to the article in question.
  2. - The Index contains 21,219 hyperlinked dates, covering:
    • Direct links to thousands of brigs, barks and other vessels.
    • Every significant site location relating to our Maritime History.
    • Thousands of articles covering maritime causalities.
    • Over 820 articles on abandoned vessels.
    • Over 365 articles covering shipwrecks on
    • Some 320 articles on navigation.
    • 283 articles on vessels that foundered.
    • Over 350 articles on water-logged vessels.
    • 217 Notary Public Acts.
    • 37 articles covering important maritime inventions.
    • 438 articles on 97 light-houses.
    • Numerous incidents on mutiny, piracy, murder, cannibalism, etc.
    • A proposed penal colony on Anticosti Island.
    • Shipbuilding.
    • Steamship communications & development and safety regulations.
    • Over 100 articles on Telegraph development and the Atlantic Telegraph cable.
    • 300 articles on pilot groundings, wrecks, etc.
    • 214 articles on Vice-Admiralty, Police and other court cases.
    • Over 100 articles in French.
    • A list of the principal subjects covered in the index.
    • Each chapter covers an entire year.
    • A glossary to help imagine and understand the meaning of phrases.
    • Practically all the terms included in the glossary are referenced.
    • A list of English name locations now identified on charts and maps in French only.
    • Several Navigational aids on each page designed to easily follow leads.
    • Over 60 articles on Reciprocity.
    • Numerous articles on Winter Navigation.
    • 239 articles on the Fishing industry.
    • A bibliography in prepetual expansion.
    • An interesting and deversified collection of related fields of maritime endeavour found in the annexes.
  
 
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