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Enlace: http://collections.ic.gc.ca/vessels/

Descripción: Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada.
«The earliest record of shipbuilding in the Maritimes is 1606, when two small boats were built at Port Royal. It was not until 1751, however, when Governor Cornwallis at Halifax offered a bounty of ten shillings per ton for every new vessel produced, that a native shipbuilding industry was encouraged in the Maritimes provinces, and began to take shape. Substantial increases in population in the late 1700s and early 1800s meant that the building of large ships for the purpose of exporting the region's plentiful resources of timber and fish had become possible.»