Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River

by David Kunz, Bill Simpson

Overview

The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467124010
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	657,755
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Boats of the St. Lawrence River 9

2 The Thousand Islands 27

3 The Lyon Family 43

4 Finesse 59

5 Vamoose 71

6 World War II 87

7 Pardon Me 103

8 Current History 117