Entrée principale:

Styran, Roberta McAfee, 1927-2015, author.

Titre et auteur:

This colossal project : building the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932 / Roberta M. Styran and Robert R. Taylor.

Publication:

Montreal, Quebec ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]

Description:

xxviii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Successor to the authors' This great object : building the nineteenth-century Welland Canals, 2012"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This colossal project -- Challenges facing the ship canal's builders "on the ground" -- Vision, skill, and courage -- Excavating the prism -- Creating the lifts -- Managing the water -- Building bridges -- "Facing their own kaisers at home" -- Ameliorating disaster and squalor -- "A settled and established community" -- Parks and publicity -- "Surpassing anything of the kind."
Issued also in electronic format.

ISBN:

9780773547902 (cloth)
0773547908 (cloth)
9780773548336 (epdf.)
0773548335 (epdf.)
9780773548343 (epub.)
0773548343 (epub.)

Sujet:

Canals Ontario Niagara Peninsula Design and construction History.
Canaux Ontario Niagara, Péninsule du Conception et construction Histoire.
Canals Design and construction.
Welland Canal (Ont.) History.
Canal Welland (Ont.) Histoire.
Ontario Niagara Peninsula.
Ontario Welland Canal.
Welland Canal (Canada)
Niagara, Vallée du 1900-1945.

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Taylor, Robert R., 1939- author.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main canada 293880
Cote: BIB 239124
Statut: Disponible