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- W1496252389 abstract "In 1987, the Marine Museum of Upper Canada acquired an iceboat last used in Toronto Har-bour in the late 1960s, which was said to have been constructed around the turn of the cen-tury. Subsequent research into the sport of ice-boating inToronto, from the 1820s to the end of World War II, has revealed it to be of con-siderable interest from both social and tech-nological points of view. The boats were used for winter transportation to and from the Toronto Island, and were also raced with fierce competitiveness around triangular courses on the frozen harbour. This article examines the growth and devel-opment of iceboating in Toronto through the period of its greatest popularity to its eventual decline, with an emphasis on the development of the form and rig of the iceboats. By the mid nineteenth century, a distinctive Toronto type of iceboat had emerged, and it predominated in the city up until the 1930s, when finally supplanted by more modem models. The preva-lence of these lateen-rigged stem-steering boats in Toronto long after the development and dominance of marconi-rigged bow-steerers elsewhere is an interesting example of insularity in small craft development. Resume En 1987, le Marine Museum of Upper Canada a fait l'acquisition d'un ice-boat (planche a voile sur patins) utilise pour la derniere fois dans le port de Toronto a la fin des annees 1960, dont on disait qu'il avait ete construit au tournant du siecle. Des recherches subsequentes sur la pratique du sport de Tice-boat a Toronto des annees 1820 jusqu'a la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ont revele que ce genre d'embarcation presentait un interet considerable, sur le plan tant social que technique. Les ice-boats servaient l'hiver au transport entre l'ile de Toronto et la terre ferme et, en outre, ils etaient pilotes avec un esprit de concurrence feroce sur des pistes de course triangulaires amenagees sur l'aire glacee du port. L'article passe en revue les etapes de la croissance et du developpement de l'ice-boat a Toronto, de son âge d'or a son declin, en s'attardant plus particulierement au developpement de la forme et du greement de ce genre d'embarcation. Le milieu du XIXe siecle a vu l'apparition d'un type torontois d'ice-boat, qui a predomine jusqu'aux annees 1930 alors qu'il a ete supplante par des modeles plus modernes. L'engouement continu des Torontois pour ces ice-boats grees de voiles latines avec roue de barre en poupe, longtemps apres le developpement et la predominance ailleurs d'ice-boats a voile marconi avec roue de barre en proue, constitue un interessant exemple d'insularite dans le domaine du developpement d'embarcations de petites dimensions." @default.
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- W1496252389 title "The Coldest Sport in the World: Iceboating in Toronto Harbour, 1824-1941" @default.
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