Peter Martin, Toronto, 1966, believe 1^st.  Hard cover, 190 pages.  Charcoal boards with embossed lettering on front board, white lettering on spine.  Virtually no wear to boards; binding tight with some foxing on outer page block.  Dust jacket has light edge wear, age toning, small loss at upper front fold, 4.5 cm tear (1.75”) on rear upper panel and small lower edge tear.  Map pastedowns and end-papers; interior clean and unmarked; black and white illustrations by Fred Craig.  ‘This is the story of steam navigation in the Kawartha Lakes and the Valley of the Trent in Central Ontario.  It is a book about steamboats – tall-stacked, shallow-draft wood-burners.  It is also a book about people.  The people who came, in the Nineteenth Century, to settle the lands drained by the Trent.  Came and cut the forests, planted the fields.  Came and built the towns.  Came and built and sailed the steamers.  It is also a book about an age that is passed forever.  The steamers are gone from the Trent, their function served by less romantic means.  The steamers are gone … but not forgotten.’ (from front flap)