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Seven years later Upper Canada's first steamboat was launched, the 740-ton Frontenac, built at the then thriving village of Ernestown. The fleet of river and lake steamers multiplied rapidly. The speed and certainty and comfort relative, at least of the steamboat at once gave a forceful impetus to settlement and to travel, and for some sections ended the pioneer period.
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