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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project : an oral history of the greatest construction show on earth / Claire Puccia Parham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parham, Claire Puccia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dams--Saint Lawrence River--Design and construction--History.
- Dams.
- Hydroelectric power plants--Saint Lawrence River--Design and construction--History.
- Hydroelectric power plants.
- Waterways--Saint Lawrence River Region--History.
- Waterways.
- Construction industry--Employees--Interviews.
- Construction industry.
- Saint Lawrence Seaway--History.
- Saint Lawrence Seaway.
- Saint Lawrence Seaway--Power utilization--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 353 pages) : illustrations, map
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Saint Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most important public works⁰́₉ initiatives of the twentieth century. In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters."
- Contents:
- The binational political debate
- The project
- The workforce
- Life on the job
- Construction dilemmas
- Off the project
- The core of the corps
- A lifetime of memories.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815651024
- 0815651023
- OCLC:
- 759158759
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