The sportsman's handbook to practical collecting, preserving, and artistic setting-up of trophies and specimens : to which is added a synoptical guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward.

  • Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912.
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The sportsman's handbook to practical collecting, preserving, and artistic setting-up of trophies and specimens : to which is added a synoptical guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Canadian Canoes. These exquisite Boats are of native build, and were first imported by Mr. Rowland Ward, F.Z.S. They are built of native Basswood, Cedar, or Cedar and Walnut. They arc phenomenally light in weight, of perfect lines, capacious and trustworthy, of minimum draught, and achieve the greatest economy of individual power for locomotion on the waters. See also p. 157, “Fisheries Exhibition,”/>ost. These Canoes are built either by Thomas Gordon, Lakefield, Ontario, or by William English, Peterborough, Ontario. Build. .s d d *ON M .s CO d to M c ‘on d to M .s *co a vo M .S *ON vo M .s * CO vii r^. M .5 N M Basswood, open rib Basswood, close rib Cedar, longitudinal strips, in- \ terior Ash ribs .. .. ) Cedar and Walnut, longitudinal £ s. 9 14 10 16 0 18 10 £ s. IO O 15 15 l7 5 19 10 £ s. ii 0 17 0 18 10 21 0 £ s. it 15 18 5 19 15 22 10 £ s. 13 5 19 10 21 0 24 0 £ s. 14 15 21 0 22 s 25 10 £ s. ro 5 23 15 27 0 £ s. 17 5 25 5 28 10 1890. Price List altered every season, These prices include two paddles and a movable seat, except the Open Rib Basswood Canoes, which have no seat. The above Canoes are to be obtained only of Rowland Ward & Co., Limited, and are the original native builds, first imported by Mr. Rowland Ward, F.Z.S., “ The Jungle,” 166, Piccadilly, London. W.