A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent Severn Waterway, 1833-1920

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1988 - 455 páginas
Canada's leaders were key participants. Governor-generals, from Sir Guy Carleton, who ordered the first survey, to Lord Syndenham, who cancelled construction in 1841, were intimately involved in the project. For nearly a century every prime minister, from Francis Hincks, who tried to sell the decaying locks and dams, through John A. Macdonald, who revived the scheme, to Robert Borden, who finally completed it, was caught up in this most persistent public project. But the most important participants were countless little-known Canadians who, for one reason or another, promoted the scheme and doggedly pushed it to a conclusion. This is their story.

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James Bethunes Waterway
3
The Bobcaygeon Lock
14
The Question of Routes
21
Improvements on the Inland Waters
36
Improvements on the River Trent
54
Stoppage of the Works
61
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67
Hamilton Killaly and the Board of Works
73
The Conversion of Wilfrid Laurier
207
The PeterboroughLakefield Division
221
The Hydraulic Lift Lock
229
R B Rogers
256
Mulocks Madness
275
Hydroelectric Power and the Port Hope Canal
296
The Ontario Rice Lake Division
307
Kerry and Culverwell
328

The Timber Slides
85
The Lumbermens Committee
95
The Union Locks
106
186796
121
The Ontario Locks
131
A Crucial Debate
143
A Barge Canal
155
Buckhorn Burleigh and Fenelon Falls
167
Tom S Rubidge
181
The Trent Valley Canal Commission
193
1896 1911
205
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349
The Western Outlet
359
The Port Severn Lock
373
The Marine Railways
385
The Couchiching Lock
398
Appendix
407
Notes
411
Bibliography
433
Index
441
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