canal-boats

Phyllis and Bobbie remembered how the boys on the canal-boats had thrown coal at them, and they said so.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

Phyllis and Bobbie remembered how the boys on the canal-boats had thrown coal at them, and they said so.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

WE THEREFORE OBSERVE: That the policy of introducing steam canal-boats as carriers of freight, is illustrated in the _Niagara_, _Eclipse_, _Gold

History of Steam on the Erie Canal Anonymous

There is no beauty, but a deal of attraction, in the great flotillas of linked barges and canal-boats which slowly pass like floating and vulgar

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

Persons are born, live, and die, and even have their gardens on canal-boats.

New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes

It will not be difficult to understand why Buffalo has attained commercial supremacy in Western New York, if you add to this never ceasing activity, betokening business, the enormous canal traffic; for it is here where innumerable canal-boats are weighted with the rich products of the west, carrying a large floating population of boatmen's families.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

They gave chase to a tug puffing northward half a mile to the right, towing two or three canal-boats through the still water and the stiller night.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

This last most invaluable, and all important article in manufacturing, can not be obtained anywhere else on the Lakes without the extra expense of shifting from canal-boats to other craft.

Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin

They are a vast hospital of interesting invalids, the patients being steamers, barges and canal-boats.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

This traffic will receive a still greater importance, and can be more advantageously carried on, when the plan of utilizing the electric current for the driving power of canal-boats -- a project recently tested by experiments -- has been successfully executed.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler