Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Also issued in French under title: Gardien de phare dans le Saint-Laurent : un métier disparu
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| Other authors / contributors: | Canada. Canadian Heritage.
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| ISBN: | 9781554882151
155488215X
9781459713420
1459713427
1550022776
9781550022773
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-106).
Co-published by: Dept. of Canadian Heritage and Canada Communication Group-Publishing, Supply and Services Canada.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Lightkeeping on the St. Lawrence outlines the history of lightkeeping in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf from its emergence in 1803 until automation replaced the last lightkeeper in 1988. Fog, hidden reefs, rocks, and sandbars have made the waters of the river and gulf among the most treacherous in the world. In the earliest days of lightkeeping in this region, the safety of the mariners had to be weighed against the problem of giving aid to enemy ships. With peace between French and English, safety became the overriding factor and the number of lighthouses, then light pillars and lightships.
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| Other form: | Print version: Lafrenière, Normand. Lightkeeping on the St. Lawrence. Toronto ; Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Dundurn Press, ©1996 1550022776 9781550022773
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| Govt.docs classification: | Cat. MAS, no. R62-287-1995E
R62-287-1995E
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