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Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The construction of the first Lachine canal, 1815-1826 written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Construction of the First Lachine Canal, 1815-1826 written by Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The geographical location of the Island of Montreal, where the St. Lawrence River meets the Ottawa, is perhaps the most significant factor contributing to Montreal's commercial importance. Geology has assisted in making Montreal an entrepot between the Atlantic and the St. Lawrence - Great Lakes hinterland. The Sault St. Louis or Lachine Rapids, at the south-west corner of the island, are composed of extremely hard rock which resists the erosive character of the river. The Lachine Rapids are turbulent and dangerous, so that the port of Montreal at the foot of them is the farthest point accessible to ships ascending the St. Lawrence." --
Author : Gerald. J. Tulchinsky
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Construction of the First Lachine Canal, 1815-1826 written by Gerald. J. Tulchinsky and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The geographical location of the Island of Montreal, where the St. Lawrence River meets the Ottawa, is perhaps the most significant factor contributing to Montreal's commercial importance. Geology has assisted in making Montreal an entrepot between the Atlantic and the St. Lawrence - Great Lakes hinterland. The Sault St. Louis or Lachine Rapids, at the south-west corner of the island, are composed of extremely hard rock which resists the erosive character of the river. The Lachine Rapids are turbulent and dangerous, so that the port of Montreal at the foot of them is the farthest point accessible to ships ascending the St. Lawrence."--
Author : Dan Horner
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 022800263X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Taking to the Streets written by Dan Horner and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and ordinary people engaged in the political process were changing, particularly in public space. In Taking to the Streets Dan Horner examines how the urban environment became a vital and contentious political site during the tumultuous period from the end of the 1837-38 rebellions to the burning of Parliament in 1849. Employing a close reading of newspaper and judicial archives, he looks at a broad range of collective crowd experiences, including riots, labour demonstrations, religious processions, and parades. By examining how crowd events were used both to assert claims of political authority and to challenge their legitimacy, Horner charts the development of a contentious democratic political culture in British North America. Taking to the Streets is an important contribution to the political and urban history of pre-Confederation Canada and a timely reminder of how Montrealers from all walks of life have always used the streets to build community and make their voices heard.
Author : Alastair Sweeny
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776636812
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Thomas Mackay written by Alastair Sweeny and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laird of Rideau Hall explores the life and times of Thomas Mackay, the chief founder of Bytown/Ottawa. Born and raised in Perth, Scotland, Mackay and his family emigrated to Montreal in 1817. Partnering with fellow mason John Redpath, he built the locks of the first Lachine Canal, did military construction work at Fort Lennox and St. Helen’s Island, and supplied stone for Montreal’s Notre Dame Basilica. Engaged by Colonel By of the Royal Engineers to build the Ottawa and Hartwell Locks of the Rideau Canal, Mackay used his profits to found the village of New Edinburgh and build a mill complex at Rideau Falls, as well as the residence his daughter named Rideau Hall. With his hefty canal profits—paid in Spanish silver pieces of eight—Mackay was a major financier of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway, and chief promoter of Ottawa as the capital of Canada. He served as Colonel of the Russell and Carleton militias, was MLA for Russell for seven years, and a member of the Legislative Council of Canada for fifteen. After Mackay’s death in 1855, his son-in-law and estate manager Thomas Keefer sold Rideau Hall to the government to serve as a residence for Canada’s Governor General. Keefer also developed a tract of land owned by the estate into the village of Rockcliffe Park, today home to over 70 diplomatic residences. Published in English.
Author : Daniel Rück
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774867469
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Laws and the Land written by Daniel Rück and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawà:ke, a Kanien’kehá:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsiónni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawà:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnawà:ke in the context of French imperial claims; intensifying colonial invasions under British rule; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. What Daniel Rück describes is an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats, Indian agents, politicians, surveyors, and entrepreneurs. This original, meticulously researched book is deeply connected to larger issues of human relations with environments, communal and individual ways of relating to land, legal pluralism, historical racism and inequality, and Indigenous resurgence.
Author : Dan Buchanan
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525519891
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book 38 Hours to Montreal written by Dan Buchanan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the Canadian colonies. In just three months in Toronto, the governor general has managed to pass all the legislation he wants, but with politics heating up in Quebec and his bosses in England dangling a peerage over his head, now he must get to Montreal as fast as he can to do the same thing there. Enter “The Stagecoach King,” William Weller, who is famous for operating the Royal Mail Line of stages between Toronto and Montreal. Weller utilizes a complex system of stage stops staffed with experienced workers and is confident he can take the governor general to Montreal in under thirty-eight hours. Driving a very unique sleigh, specially modified for this trip, Weller pilots the governor general and his aid-de-camp Captain Thomas Le Marchant over 370 miles of snowy and muddy roads, avoiding dangerous obstacles and constantly moving forward. In a meticulously researched account of this epic trek, author Dan Buchanan brings the reader along on a breathlessly exciting journey that intricately explores Canadian history through the people, places, and buildings that existed along those treacherous roads in 1840.
Author : Alida Clemente
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000338428
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900 written by Alida Clemente and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices, experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling, the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing, examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private, and commercial and domestic, as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare, connecting the city, but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies, from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings, this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers, the book will interest historical geographers, urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America.
Author : Clarence Epstein
Publisher : PUQ
ISBN 13 : 2760534235
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Montreal, City of Spires written by Clarence Epstein and published by PUQ. This book was released on 2012-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the fifty religious buildings discussed in this book, only a precious few remain standing despite the fact that Montreal boasts one of the largest and most eclectic groupings of Georgian and Victorian structures of any city in North America.Following the British conquest of New France in 1759 a remarkable series of transformations took place in the small, Catholic trading town of Montreal. Given the diversity of settlers forced to live side by side, the new church buildings that were to rise became strategic public spaces, meeting places as well as power bases. It was no wonder that by the time Mark Twain toured Canada’s first metropolis in the 1880s, he found that one could not throw a brick in the place without breaking a church window.By addressing the social, religious and architectural issues surrounding these colonial-era structures, it will become apparent that Montreal was at once a shining jewel in England’s imperial crown, a chief outpost of Catholicism in the New World, as well as the British North American headquarters for more than a dozen independent congregations.
Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889206384
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The British Ordnance Department and Canada’s Canals 1815-1855 written by George Raudzens and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .
Author : Yvon Desloges
Publisher : Les éditions du Septentrion
ISBN 13 : 9782894483312
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The Lachine Canal written by Yvon Desloges and published by Les éditions du Septentrion. This book was released on 2002-10-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for history buffs interested in inland navigation and industrial history, this volume reveals how the construction of the Lachine Canal starting in 1821 played a pivotal role in the industrial development of Montreal and all of Canada. Truly revolutionary, the canal ultimately allowed ships to bypass the previously insurmountable rapids and reach the Great Lakes, and its many consequences and benefits are described in detail.
Author : Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780802034526
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by Francess G. Halpenny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
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Publisher : Easton, Pa. : Canal History and Technology Press, Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums : Pennsylvania Canal Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Canal Bibliography with a Primary Emphasis on the United States and Canada written by and published by Easton, Pa. : Canal History and Technology Press, Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums : Pennsylvania Canal Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382173476
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Canal Commission written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Seamus P. Metress
Publisher : P.D. Meany Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Irish in North America written by Seamus P. Metress and published by P.D. Meany Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry James Morgan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368125214
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Canal Commission written by Henry James Morgan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
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Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book General Report of the Commissioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
