Hard-water Sailing
Spectators gather at the foot of Toronto's Bay St. to view a variety of iceboats in 1907.
"There were the iceboats, which were a very great delight to us. They were made triangular with one piece of iron at the point and two others on the other points. It was built like a platform and had a sail on. The motion was quite delicious--you went so very fast and smoothly. There were very few iceboats on the river when we were there."
The above quote comes from My Girlhood In Canada Many Years Ago, a book by Frances Hale Orlebar. Written in the 1920s, Orlebar was describing ...