The Canadian Magazine, Vol. 41
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Excerpt from The Canadian Magazine, Vol. 41: Of Politics, Science, Art and Literature Fathoms deep, in the placid waters of the little bay, o´er which the scarred ramparts of Fort Henry, at Kingston, cast their shadow, lie the decayed relics of what was once the pride of naval power in Canada. Here, nearly a century ago, were unceremoniously laid to rest all that was left of the fighting Temeraires of our inland seas, sunk, "by Death´s superior weight of metal," in a grave unmarked, unhonoured, and unsung, invisible tokens of a past which is almost forgotten. That Canada has a naval history worthy of remembrance is a fact which is not sufficiently realised, or, if realised, not adequately appreciated. "The creation of a Canadian navy is as old as Confederation," recently declared the leader of one of the great political parties. It would have been more in accord with historical truth if he had said that the maintenance of naval armaments was as old as Canada herself. For just as the greatest sea power of modern times had its foundations in the "Wooden Walls" of Old England, so Canada can look back to a time when her own armed fleets, flying the King´s flag, but none the less distinctively Canadian, formed a redoubtable factor in the issues of peace and war, and exercised a controlling interest upon her history. The naval forces which represented the might of Britain in Canadian waters in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and the beginning of the nineteenth, have been described somewhat contemptuously by an American writer as a kind of water militia; and even our own historians have not been over enthusiastic in praise of their character and performances. Compared with the mighty engines of destruction which, it is now proposed, shall represent the Dominion in the power that rules the waves, the old Canadian navies, no doubt, appear almost lndicrously insignificant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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