Title This great national object : building the nineteenth-century Welland canals / Roberta M. Styran and Robert R. Taylor.

Publication Info.	Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2012]
	Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012.
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xxiv, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital file
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The great national object -- Choosing the route -- Surveyors, engineers, and contractors -- Digging the ditch -- Creating the lifts -- Managing the water -- Building bridges -- Community relations -- Working on the Welland -- Conflict and survival on the ground -- Into the future.
Summary	How "Mr. Merritt's Ditch" became a link in the chain of inland waterways between the Atlantic Ocean and North America's heartland.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Welland Canal (Ont.) -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Taylor, Robert R., 1939-
Other Form:	Print version: Songer, Donald R. This Great National Object : Building the Nineteenth-Century Welland Canals Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,c2014
ISBN	9780773586901 (electronic book)
	0773586903 (electronic book)