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This great national object : building the nineteenth-century Welland canals

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  • Author: Styran, Roberta M.
    Contributor: Taylor, Robert R.
    Date:
    Created
    2012
    Summary:

    How "Mr. Merritt's Ditch" became a link in the chain of inland waterways between the Atlantic Ocean and North America's heartland.

    Contents:
    • The great national object
    • Choosing the route
    • Surveyors, engineers, and contractors
    • Digging the ditch
    • Creating the lifts
    • Managing the water
    • Building bridges
    • Community relations
    • Working on the Welland
    • Conflict and survival on the ground
    • Into the future.
    Genre:
    History and geography, Canadian nonfiction
    Subject(s): Ontario--Welland Canal
    Original Publisher: Montreal [Que.], (Ottawa, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, Canadian Electronic Library
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780773586901