This great national object : building the nineteenth-century Welland canals
Contributor: Taylor, Robert R.
Résumé: 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.
Original Publisher: Montreal [Que.]
, (Ottawa, Ontario
, McGill-Queen's University Press
, Canadian Electronic Library
Language(s): English
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Abstract
How "Mr. Merritt's Ditch" became a link in the chain of inland waterways between the Atlantic Ocean and North America's heartland.
Publisher (Source)
McGill-Queen's University Press
Canadian Electronic Library
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