Excerpt from Appendix to the Twenty Eight Volume of the Journals of the House of Commons, Dominion of Canada: Session 1894At the meeting of the institute on the 17th December last, I submitted a short paper on Ocean Steam Navigation, in which I proved by incontrovertible evidence that the first ship to cross the Atlantic under steam was constructed in Quebec by Canadian owners. Since that date two articles on this subject have been published in the United States which appear to call for notice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.