LEADER 03611nam 2200625 450 001 9910455486403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-00844-7 010 $a9786612008443 010 $a1-4426-7524-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442675247 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004077 035 $a(EBL)3254869 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000297363 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297363 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10333358 035 $a(PQKB)10674910 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600162 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254869 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671545 035 $a(DE-B1597)464499 035 $a(OCoLC)946712467 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442675247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671545 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257251 035 $a(OCoLC)958558774 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004077 100 $a20160922h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGentlemen engineers $ethe working lives of Frank and Walter Shanly /$fRichard White 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1999. 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-0887-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPREFACE -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tMAPS -- $t1. The Shanly Boys Leave Home -- $t2. Learning on the Job -- $t3. A Rough Ride on the Grand Trunk Railway -- $t4. Boldness and Weakness: Frank Shanly, 1855?1882 -- $t5. Honour and Pride: Walter Shanly, 1855?1899 -- $t6. Gentlemen Engineers -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tPICTURE CREDITS -- $tINDEX 330 $aGentlemen Engineers tells the engaging story of the working lives of Frank and Walter Shanly, two well-connected nineteenth-century Canadian civil engineers and businessmen who worked on many of the significant projects of the age. Drawing on rich documentary sources, Richard White reveals details of their work, not just in the office and field, but in their homes and private studies as well. The most striking discovery White makes is that the civil engineering profession these brothers entered in the 1840s was already an established profession with fairly high social status. The Shanlys were from an old Irish gentry family, but found the profession quite compatible with their social position and gentry culture. The author thoroughly explores the connection between the Shanlys' as engineers and gentlemen.White finds another unexpected theme in their lives. In much of the recent social history of business, studies of elite nineteenth-century businessmen have tended to concentrate on power and status: how these men acquired, consolidated, and transmitted it over generations. But the careers of Frank and Walter Shanly were, in fact, full of hard work, struggle, and disappointment.This study is an important contribution to our understanding of civil engineering professionalization, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada. 606 $aCivil engineers$zOntario$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivil engineers 676 $a624/.092/2713 700 $aWhite$b Richard$f1952-$01057164 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455486403321 996 $aGentlemen engineers$92492135 997 $aUNINA