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.
9780773586901
Electronic Books.
HE401 / .T457 2012
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.
9780773586901
Electronic Books.
HE401 / .T457 2012