| THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING From a painting by Verner. | Frontispiece |
| THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKES By Lorado Taft, in the Chicago Art Institute. | Facing page 12 |
| SHIPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' | 44 |
| CHAMPLAIN'S SHIP, THE 'DON DE DIEU' From the model at the Quebec Tercentenary. | 54 |
| A FRENCH FRIGATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' | 64 |
| SHIP 'BATAVIA,' 2000 TONS Built by F.-X. Marquis at Quebec, 1877. Lost on Inaccessible Island, 1879. From a picture belonging to Messrs Ross and Co., Quebec. | 92 |
| TRANSPORT 'BECKWITH' AND BATEAUX, LAKE ONTARIO, 1816 From the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. | 136 |
| THE 'ROYAL WILLIAM' From the original painting in possession of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. | 140 |
