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This Great National Object

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Author : Roberta M. Styran
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773586903
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book This Great National Object written by Roberta M. Styran and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making extensive use of the National Archives and the Archives of Ontario, Styran and Taylor unveil previously unpublished information about the construction of the canals, including technical plans and drawings from a wide variety of sources. They illustrate the technical and management intricacies of building a navigational trade and commerce lifeline while also revealing the vivid characters - from businessman William Hamilton Merritt to engineer John Page - who inspired the project and drove it to completion. The history of the Welland Canals is a gripping tale of epic proportions. Given the ongoing importance of the Great Lakes in the North American economy, interest in the St. Lawrence Seaway - of which the Welland is "the Great Swivel Link" - and the relevance of labour history, This Great National Object will be of interest to enthusiasts and historians alike.

This Colossal Project

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Author : Roberta M. Styran
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773548335
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book This Colossal Project written by Roberta M. Styran and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Colossal Project presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America’s infrastructure and still functions as an essential part of the St Lawrence Seaway. 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. Building on the work presented in Styran and Taylor’s This Great National Object, which told the story of the first three Welland canals built in the nineteenth century, This Colossal Project chronicles an impressive milestone in the history of Canadian technological achievement and nation building.

THE ONES WHO HAVE TO PAY

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Author : ROBERT RATCLIFFE TAYLOR
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146699035X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book THE ONES WHO HAVE TO PAY written by ROBERT RATCLIFFE TAYLOR and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war in Europe broke out in 1914, why did so many men from Victoria, BC, Canada, enlist enthusiastically? What did they feel about the war they were fighting? What were their personal values? Were they ever disillusioned in the trenches of the Western Front? To what extent did they enjoy combat? How did they regard the German enemy? And faced with artillery bombardment, execrable living conditions, and the fear of death or maiming, what helped them to carry on? In researching these questions, the author found that Victoria was a unique city in several ways and that some assumptions about Canadian soldiers’ trench experience may not apply to volunteers from that city. Moreover, the culture of the time was different from that of Canada today so that the enthusiasm for military life and for “the empire” may seem bizarre to young people. Ideals of masculinity may seem outdated, and the concepts of personal honor and duty, which these men supported, may be obsolete. This essay tries to understand the culture of Canada and especially that of Victoria, BC, a century ago, a pertinent exercise considering the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War.

The Constructor

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Author : Franz Reuleaux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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The Birdcages

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Author : Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525547054
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Birdcages written by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing a little-known chapter in the history of Victoria, British Columbia, The Birdcages, the province’s first legislative buildings, were built 1859-1864, the formative, tumultuous time of the Gold Rushes. Constructed on the site of the present Legislature, they were built amid controversy and derided for their style. The brainchild of Governor James Douglas, they resembled, according to journalist/politician Amor de Cosmos, “something between a Dutch toy and a Chinese pagoda.” Readers will discover how civil servants and politicians felt about them as a workplace and what the general public thought about them as civic architecture. The career of their designer, the mysterious Hermann Otto Tiedemann, one of Victoria’s vivid early “characters,” is recounted as are the contributions of local contractors and tradesmen. The site of events of national importance until their demise in 1898, the Birdcages reflected the history, character, and heritage of Victoria and played an important role in the developing political traditions of the province and the young Dominion of Canada. A place for political demonstrations and community celebrations, the House of Assembly was where the MLAs debated joining Confederation, granting the vote to women, and excluding Asian immigrants. Based on personal memoirs and letters, government documents, photographs and plans, this book will interest both students and adults, history buffs and professional historians.

A Manual for Naval Cadets

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Author : John McNeill Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Moorings and Appliances ...

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Author : United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ships
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Moorings and Appliances ... written by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ships and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manual ...

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Author : United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ships
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Manual ... written by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ships and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bureau of Ships Manual: Moorings and appliances (1942-43, 1946)

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Author : United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Bureau of Ships Manaul

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Author : United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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The World's Water

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Author : Peter H. Gleick
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 161091483X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The World's Water written by Peter H. Gleick and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced biennially, The World's Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-to date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources. Each new volume examines critical global trends and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. Volume 8 features chapters on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), water footprints, sustainable water jobs, and desalination financing, among other timely issues. Water briefs provide concise updates on topics including the Dead-Sea and the role of water in the Syrian conflict. The World's Water is coauthored by MacArthur "genius" Peter H. Gleick and his colleagues at the world-renowned Pacific Institute. Since the first volume was published in 1998, the series has become an indispensable resource for professionals in government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, researchers, students, and anyone concerned with water and its use.

Overcoming Niagara

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Author : Janet Dorothy Larkin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438468253
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Niagara written by Janet Dorothy Larkin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Overcoming Niagara Janet Dorothy Larkin analyzes the canal age from the perspective of the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland between 1792 and 1837. She shows what drove the transportation revolution, not the conventional story of westward expansion and the international/metropolitan rivalry between Great Britain and the United States, but a dynamic connection, cooperation, and healthy competition in a transnational-borderland region. Larkin focuses on North America's three most vital waterways—the Erie, Oswego, and Welland Canals. Canadian and American transportation leaders and promoters mutually sought to overcome the natural and artificial barriers presented by Niagara Falls by building an integrated, interconnected canal system, thus strengthening the borderland economy and propelling westward expansion, market development, and the Niagara tourist industry. On the heels of the Erie Canal's bicentennial in 2017, Overcoming Niagara explores the transnational nature of the canal age within the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland, and its impact on the commercial and cultural landscape of this porous region.

An Universal Dictionary of the Marine

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Author : William Falconer
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine written by William Falconer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive dictionary of maritime terminology was first published in 1813 and designed as a reference work for shipbuilders and navigators. It was compiled by the naval historian William Burney and presented a revised and expanded version of the classic Universal Marine Dictionary originally published in 1769 by the poet and lexicographer William Falconer (1732–89). The dictionary with over 800 pages presents technical data on shipbuilding, navigation, the operation of ships, weaponry, and provisions, as well as historical, legal, and medical information.

Supreme Court Reporter

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Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Supreme Court Reporter, Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Supreme Court

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Author : Robert Desty
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338544618X
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Supreme Court Reporter, Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Supreme Court written by Robert Desty and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1889.

English Patents of Inventions, Specifications

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office

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Author : United States. Patent Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)

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