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

Successor to the authors' This great object : building the nineteenth-century Welland Canals, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The story of the construction of a technological monument that remains a cornerstone of the North American economy.

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PREFACE: A Canadian Conception: A Canadian Achievement -- INTRODUCTION: One of the Very Few Great Ship Canals of the World -- CHAPTER ONE: This Colossal Project -- CHAPTER TWO: Challenges Facing the Ship Canal's Builders "on the Ground" -- CHAPTER THREE: Vision, Skill, and Courage -- CHAPTER FOUR: Excavating the Prism -- CHAPTER FIVE: Creating the Lifts -- CHAPTER SIX: Managing the Water -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Building Bridges -- CHAPTER EIGHT: "Facing their own kaisers at home" -- CHAPTER NINE: Ameliorating Disaster and Squalor -- CHAPTER TEN: "A settled and established community" -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Parks and Publicity -- CHAPTER TWELVE: "Surpassing anything of the kind" -- APPENDICES -- I: Some Welland Ship Canal Construction Engineers -- II: Construction Sections and Contractors -- III: Construction Fatalities -- IV: The Welland By-Pass -- V: Associations, Commissions, Committees, and Treaties Affecting the Welland Canals -- VI: Martyrs of Progress (Poem) -- VII: Historiographical Essay -- VIII: Milestones in the Construction of the Welland Ship Canal, 1913-1932 -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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