Main entry:

Legget, Robert Ferguson.

Title & Author:

John By, lieutenant colonel, Royal Engineers, 1779-1836 : builder of the Rideau Canal, founder of Ottawa / Robert Legget.

Publication:

[Ottawa] : Historical Society of Ottawa, [1982]

Description:

63 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : genealogical table ; 23 cm.

Series:

[Bytown series]

Notes:
"May 1982."
Cover title: John By, builder of the Rideau Canal, founder of Ottawa.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-61).
Part one, 1779-1826. Woolwich ; Plymouth ; Canada: first service ; Peninsula war ; Waltham Abbey, Enfield ; Shernfold Park, Frant -- Part two, 1826-1836. Why the Canal was built -- Selection of John By ; The Canal ; The setting ; How John By built it ; John By's assistants ; Care of his men ; A man of vision ; Problems ; Helping others ; Bytown-Ottawa ; Some other pleasures ; Domestic life ; Triumph and tragedy ; Some tributes ; The end.

ISBN:

(pbk.)
0920969146
0920960146 (corrected)
9780920960141 (corrected)
9780920969144
0920969143

Subject:

By, John, 1779?-1836.
By, John, 1781-1836.
Hydraulic engineers Canada Biography.
Ingénieurs Canada Biographies.
Ingénieurs hydrauliciens Canada Biographies.
Hydraulic engineers.
Rideau Canal (Ont.) History.
Ottawa (Ont.) History.
Canal Rideau (Ont.) Histoire.
Ottawa (Ont.) Biographie.
Ottawa (Ont.) Biographies.
Canada.
Ontario Ottawa.
Ontario Rideau Canal.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Bytown series.

John By, builder of the Rideau Canal, founder of Ottawa

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 270206
Call No.: BIB 202895
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available