Excerpt from Port Directory of Principal Canadian Ports and Harbours: Also Descriptions of New Types of Aids to Navigation Introduced in All Canadian Waterways The improved aids to navigation, introduced and established in Canadian waters, in recent years, and the dredging of impor tant harbours and channels, have greatly reduced the dangers of navigation, enabling much larger ships now to use our important waterways and enter our principal ports, than in any period of the history of the country. 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.