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Thinking with Water

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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.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2013-10-10
  • Mått165 x 241 x 25 mm
  • Vikt822 g
  • FormatHäftad
  • SpråkEngelska
  • Antal sidor368
  • FörlagMcGill-Queen's University Press
  • ISBN9780773541801
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