Thinking with Water (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780773541795)

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.

Author: Cecilia Chen,Janine MacLeod,Astrida Neimanis
ISBN-10: 0773541799
ISBN-13: 9780773541795
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2013
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.70w x 1.20d