Synopses & Reviews
Tales from the Great Lakes is a compilation of the best of Charles Jeremy Snider's "Schooner Days" articles, which he wrote for the Toronto Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954.
Review
"The book is worth reading for many reasons, but principally because it brings a forgotten age to life, the age of the Great Lakes schooners." John Melady
Synopsis
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.
C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's The Evening Telegram between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider's writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider's stories, adds some of his own.
Synopsis
For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.
C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's "The Evening Telegram" between 1931 and 1954. A great marine researcher and artist, Snider himself worked aboard schooners in his youth and studied first-hand the development of the Great Lakes region. Coupled with Snider's writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider's stories, adds some of his own.
Synopsis
Coupled with C.H.J. Snider's writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider's stories, adds some of his own about the "Schooner Days" on the Great Lakes.
About the Author
Robert B. Townsend was a long-time sailor and sailing enthusiast who, after forty years on Bay Street, and following a lifetime of active community involvement, retired to the beautiful Bay of Quinte. For many years an advocate of the preservation of the marine heritage of Ontario, he compiled a database of Snider's "Schooner Days" articles.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Charles Henry Jeremiah Snider, 1879-1971, "The Skipper"; About the Old Schooners; Building a Schooner; Rigs; Stonehookers; Registration; The Fore-'n'-After; Whatchacallit; Fitting-Out Time Fifty Years Ago; Seagoing Teamsters; Making Hay in December; Port Credit; Sunday Scorching; Last Coal of Last Century; Brave Boat Work at Century's End; Chasing a Lithophone; Snider Mysteries; At the Foot of the Highlands; The Marysburgh; Perhaps This Solves the Highlands' Secret; Little Lady of Fifty-five Years Ago; Highland Creek and Rouge River; Port Union