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From Shore to Shore: the Construction of Ferries in Saskatchewan, Canada (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prior to the construction of bridges, the most common and safest method to cross the rivers in the Canadian prairies was to be ferried a crossed, due to the severe and dangerous currents within the rivers. These ferries were locally manufactured to no standard plan, with the knowledge that the ferries would have a limited useful...