LEADER 03861nam 2200481 450 001 9910153130403321 005 20230602230539.0 010 $a0-7735-4834-3 010 $a0-7735-4833-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773548336 035 $a(CKB)3710000000960229 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4748430 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/86vpvb 035 $a(DE-B1597)654924 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773548336 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000960229 100 $a20161215h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aThis colossal project $ebuilding the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932 /$fRoberta M. Styran and Robert R. Taylor 210 1$aMontreal, [Quebec Province] :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (369 pages) $cillustrations, maps, photographs 311 $a0-7735-4790-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Canadian Conception -- $tOne of the Very Few Great -- $tThis Colossal Project -- $tChallenges Facing the Ship Canal?s Builders ?on the Ground? -- $tVision, Skill, and Courage -- $tExcavating the Prism -- $tCreating the Lifts -- $tManaging the Water -- $tBuilding Bridges -- $t?Facing their own kaisers at home? -- $tAmeliorating Disaster and Squalor -- $t?A settled and established community? -- $tParks and Publicity -- $t?Surpassing anything of the kind? -- $tSome Welland Ship Canal Construction Engineers -- $tConstruction Sections and Contractors -- $tConstruction Fatalities -- $tThe Welland By-Pass -- $tAssociations, Commissions, Committees, and Treaties Affecting the Welland Canals -- $tMartyrs of Progress (Poem) -- $tHistoriographical Essay -- $tMilestones in the Construction of the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932 -- $tGlossary -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aCanals$xDesign and construction 607 $aWelland Canal (Ont.)$xHistory 615 0$aCanals$xDesign and construction. 676 $a386.470971338 700 $aStyran$b Roberta McAfee$f1927-2015,$01358456 702 $aTaylor$b Robert R.$f1939-, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910153130403321 996 $aThis colossal project$93368504 997 $aUNINA