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Updated: June 10, 2025

The first attempt in the English colonies to trade with Canada by way of the open sea was made in 1658, when Captain John Perel sailed from New York for Quebec in the French barque St Jean, and was wrecked on Anticosti, with the total loss of a cargo of sugar and tobacco.

William Charles Henry Wood - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways