Another ChanceChapter 57
The reason for the inaccurate charts of the waters of the Great Lakes has a great deal to do with politics and very little to do with ineptness. Great Lakes shipping didn't have much impact on international commerce or money in the pockets of people on the coast. For years, if an inland waterway shipper need to take a load from Leamington, on western Lake Erie, to Montreal, they hired or built a boat to take their goods via Lake Erie to the Niagara River, unload the cargo, transport it...