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Author | : Ronald Stagg |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2010-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1770705317 |
Download The Golden Dream Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project for fifty years until Canada suddenly decided to build a seaway alone, pressuring the American Congress to co-operate. The building of the Seaway and its completion in 1959, involved engineering on an unprecedented scale and significant human dislocation. During construction, communities along the Great Lakes planned for increased prosperity, but changes in transportation, aging infrastructure, and environmental problems have mean that "the Golden Dream" has not been fully realized, even today. This popular history chronicles the rise of one of the great engineering projects in Canadian history and its controversial impact on the people living along the St. Lawrence River.
Author | : David Kunz and Bill Simpson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146712401X |
Download Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--
Author | : Claire Puccia Parham |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2009-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815609131 |
Download The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most important public works initiatives of the twentieth century. Seen as vital to North American commerce and strategic in advancing America’s position on the world stage, the billion-dollar seaway and power dam were also a phenomenal feat of engineering, involving an unprecedented level of cooperation between Canadian and American agencies and the unrelenting efforts of workers on both sides of the border. Dubbed the greatest construction show on earth, the largest waterway and hydro dam project ever jointly built by two nations consisted of seven locks, the widening of various canals, the taming of rapids, and the erection of the 3,216-foot-long, 195.5-foot-high Robert Moses–Robert H. Saunders Power Dam. In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women who accompanied them. This book is a fitting tribute to the hard work and dedication of the project’s 22,000 workers.
Author | : William H. Becker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Saint Lawrence Seaway |
ISBN | : |
Download From the Atlantic to the Great Lakes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jeff Alexander |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609171977 |
Download Pandora's Locks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.
Author | : Dan Egan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393246442 |
Download The Death and Life of the Great Lakes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
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ISBN | : 9780961641283 |
Download Cruising Guide to the Hudson River, Lake Champlain & the St. Lawrence River Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : St. Lawrence Seaway Authority (Canada) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Saint Lawrence Seaway |
ISBN | : |
Download St. Lawrence Seaway Navigation Season Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on St. Lawrence Seaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Saint Lawrence Seaway |
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Author | : United States. Department of State |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Canals |
ISBN | : |
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