This Colossal Project Building the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932

Taylor, Robert & Roberta Styran

ISBN 10: 0773547908 / ISBN 13: 9780773547902

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

About this Item

Moderate wear. Some pages have highlighting, underlining and/or margin notes in pencil (approximately 15% to 20% of the pages and at the beginning of the book - clean after page 71). The DJ has little wear with straight and crisp edges. Satisfaction guaranteed with 30-day return policy. Ships from Canada. ; 152.4 X 33.02 X 228.6 millimeters; 368 pages; R6 616k/551k s5.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Colossal Project Building the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773547908
• ISBN 13: 9780773547902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

About this title

Synopsis

This Colossal Project presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America’s infrastructure and still functions as an essential part of the St Lawrence Seaway.

Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities - including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers - played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest.

Building on the work presented in Styran and Taylor’s This Great National Object, which told the story of the first three Welland canals built in the nineteenth century, This Colossal Project chronicles an impressive milestone in the history of Canadian technological achievement and nation building.

About the Author

Roberta M. Styran, retired assistant professor of history at Brock University and co-author of The Great Swivel Link: Canada's Welland Canal, is the 2009 recipient of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering's W. Gordon Plewes Award.