| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-440) and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART ONE: THE COLONIAL YEARS: 1833�41""; ""1 James Bethune's Waterway""; ""2 The Bobcaygeon Lock""; ""3 The Question of Routes""; ""4 Improvements on the Inland Waters""; ""5 Improvements on the River Trent""; ""6 Stoppage of the Works""; ""PART TWO: THE UNION YEARS: 1841�67""; ""7 Hamilton Killaly and the Board of Works""; ""8 The Timber Slides""; ""9 The Lumbermen's Committee""; ""10 The Union Locks""; ""PART THREE: THE MACDONALD YEARS: 1867�96""; ""11 The Ontario Locks""; ""12 A Crucial Debate""; ""13 A Barge Canal"" |
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""14 Buckhorn, Burleigh, and Fenelon Falls""""15 Tom S. Rubidge""; ""16 The Trent Valley Canal Commission""; ""PART FOUR: THE LAURIER YEARS: 1896�1911""; ""17 The Conversion of Wilfrid Laurier""; ""18 The Peterborough-Lakefield Division""; ""19 The Hydraulic Lift Lock""; ""20 The Simcoe � Balsam Lake Division""; ""21 R.B. Rogers""; ""22 Mulock's Madness""; ""23 Hydroelectric Power and the Port Hope Canal""; ""24 The Ontario � Rice Lake Division""; ""25 Kerry and Culverwell""; ""PART FIVE: THE BORDEN YEARS: 1911�20""; ""26 The Western Outlet""; ""27 The Port Severn Lock"" |
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""28 The Marine Railways""""29 The Couchiching Lock""; ""Appendix""; ""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""; ""Maps""; ""Photo sections"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Canals -- Ontario -- History.
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Canals. |
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Ontario. |
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History. |
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Trent-Severn Waterway (Ont.) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Angus, James T. (James Thomas), 1928- Respectable ditch. Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1988 (DLC) 88207249 |
| ISBN |
9780773561335 (electronic book) |
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0773561331 (electronic book) |
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0773505970 |
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9780773505971 |
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0773518215 |
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9780773518216 |
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