Barges

A barge is a shoal-draft flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of bulk goods. Originally barges were towed by draft horses on an adjacent towpath. Today, barges may be self-propelled, usually with a slow-revving diesel engine and a large-diameter fixed-pitch propeller. Otherwise, "dumb barges" must be towed by tugs, or pushed by pusher boats. Compared to a towed barge, a pusher system has improved handling and is more efficient, as the pushing tug becomes "part of the unit" and it contributes to the momentum of the whole.

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Publications

UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 5 April 2024 English

Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.

water, just like Dad did with the Cleopatra’s barges at Caesars Palace,” Hart said.44 Students from


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 30 March 2024 English

Emily McGiffin’s poems examine imperial violence and colonialism in South Africa and Canada. Multifaceted and multi-voiced, Emily McGiffin’s poems explore the ongoing violence, destruction, and loss wrought by colonialism and …

docks, masts sway and in the bay fishing boats, barges, ferries with their tarred and weedy hulls cormorants


WWF: World Wildlife Fund Canada · 23 February 2024 English

The analysis provides recommendations to mitigate shipping impacts in HRAs, including vessel speed reductions, The impacts of shipping in the NSB have been overlooked re-routing ships away from HRAs, enhancing …

the NSB are also frequently travelled by tugs, barges, yachts and ferries.6 The narrow Inside Passage


DDN: Dundurn Press · 23 January 2024 English

Through luminescent light, ancestral paths, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world, Naniki explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea …

of the construc- tion stretches before us. Huge barges pump a mixture intovast machines, rubble is being


JCCF: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms · 6 December 2023 English

From the evidence of these officers and the evidence of many witnesses who testified as to the smell given off from the water throughtout the 35 miles of the course …

100, it was held, where the defendant had some barges moored on a navigable creek, and had thereby obstructed and prevented the plaintiff from navigating his barges, whereby he was obliged to convey his goods at


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 13 October 2023 English

The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett …

complicated shipping routes, including trains, planes, barges (for communities located along the coast), and


School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 12 September 2023

• The Government of Canada, in line with its consultations on the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, should identify ways to incorporate the …

communities described being heavily dependent on barges, ferries, and other watercraft for the transportation goods to roadless communities when sealifts and barges are unavailable, perpetuates the high costs of


DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 September 2023 English

A full-colour guide to dozens of unique outdoor spaces that highlight Toronto as a sustainable, liveable city.Toronto is rich in public spaces — deeply incised ravines, lively neighbourhoods, lush gardens …

seeing these beautiful bridges float into view on barges and fit into place. PORT LANDS BRIDGES 79THE DON


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 August 2023 English

Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. His is a special …

the whole way, with almost no food. One of them barges into our room multiple times at 3:00 a.m. to use


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 18 August 2023 English

Hekmat Al-Taweel (1922–2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse and provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian …

home-turned-kindergarten. While they argue, Hekmat barges into the home, pointing out a painting by Elias’s


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