A Sunday Afternoon; Classic Boats on the Rideau Canal

Blue Cloth. As New/Fine. No Additional Printings. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 144 pages; map endpapers (Rideau canal); illustrated with many historic photographs of the canal, locks, boats, and neighboring structures and facilities; also illustrated in color and black-and-white are present day of surviving antique and classic boats (both oared and powered) whose owners are members of the Manotick Classic Boat Club; from the dj: "A century ago new attitudes were transforming patterns of recreation. On a sleeping and nearly dormant military and commercial canal, pleasure boating took root and spread from Kingston to Ottawa. On river and lake, at lock and channel, a celebration of wooden boats breathed life into the Rideau Waterway. This book is a celebration of those heritage boats, the wonderful waterway on which they were used, and the survival of many specimens from the early days of recreational boating.".