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

Styran, Roberta M. 1927-

This great national object building the nineteenth-century Welland canals / Roberta M. Styran and Robert R. Taylor. - Montreal [Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2012. (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xxiv, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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



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Electronic Books.

HE401 / .T457 2012