This Colossal Project: Building the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932 9780773548336
The story of the construction of a technological monument that remains a cornerstone of the North American economy.
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English Pages [369] Year 2016
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
PREFACE: A Canadian Conception: A Canadian Achievement
INTRODUCTION: One of the Very Few Great Ship Canals of the World
CHAPTER ONE: This Colossal Project
CHAPTER TWO: Challenges Facing the Ship Canal’s Builders “on the Ground”
CHAPTER THREE: Vision, Skill, and Courage
CHAPTER FOUR: Excavating the Prism
CHAPTER FIVE: Creating the Lifts
CHAPTER SIX: Managing the Water
CHAPTER SEVEN: Building Bridges
CHAPTER EIGHT: “Facing their own kaisers at home”
CHAPTER NINE: Ameliorating Disaster and Squalor
CHAPTER TEN: “A settled and established community”
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Parks and Publicity
CHAPTER TWELVE: “Surpassing anything of the kind”
APPENDICES
I: Some Welland Ship Canal Construction Engineers
II: Construction Sections and Contractors
III: Construction Fatalities
IV: The Welland By-Pass
V: Associations, Commissions, Committees, and Treaties Affecting the Welland Canals
VI: Martyrs of Progress (Poem)
VII: Historiographical Essay
VIII: Milestones in the Construction of the Welland Ship Canal, 1913–1932
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