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This Great National Object : Building the Nineteenth-Century Welland Canals / Roberta M. Styran and Robert Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Styran, Roberta McAfee, 1927-2015, author.
- Taylor, Robert R., 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welland Canal (Ont.)--History.
- Welland Canal (Ont.) -- History.
- Welland Canal (Ont.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (430 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780773544642
- 077354464X
- 9780773597006
- 077359700X
- OCLC:
- 812837224
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