Download or read book The Niagara Ship Canal Its Military and Commercial Necessity written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ship Canal from the Great Lakes to the Navigable Waters of the Hudson River written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Preliminary Examination for a Ship Canal from the Great Lakes to the Navigable Waters of the Hudson River written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Canal System of the State of New York written by Noble E. Whitford and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Download or read book Love Canal written by Richard S. Newman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists soon found that they were engaged in a far larger battle over the meaning of America's industrial past and its environmental future. The Love Canal protest movement inaugurated the era of grassroots environmentalism, spawning new anti-toxics laws and new models of ecological protest. Historian Richard S. Newman examines the Love Canal crisis through the area's broader landscape, detailing the way this ever-contentious region has been used, altered, and understood from the colonial era to the present day. Newman journeys into colonial land use battles between Native Americans and European settlers, 19th-century utopian city planning, the rise of the American chemical industry in the 20th century, the transformation of environmental activism in the 1970s, and the memory of environmental disasters in our own time. In an era of hydrofracking and renewed concern about nuclear waste disposal, Love Canal remains relevant. It is only by starting at the very beginning of the site's environmental history that we can understand the road to a hazardous waste crisis in the 1970s-and to the global environmental justice movement it sparked.
Download or read book Ship Canal from the Great Lakes to the Navigable Waters of the Hudson River written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Railways and Canals and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Niagara written by Pierre Berton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of this natural wonder, from its geological beginnings to the present. "The noble cataract reflects the concerns, failings, and fancies of the times. If we gaze deeply into its shimmering image we can perhaps discern our own." - page 22 “[Pierre Berton] makes a serious and convincing case for Niagara's pivotal role in North American history. ... His Niagara is a lodestar for North American culture and invention: site of the first railway suspension bridge, inspiration for Nikola Tesla's discovery of the principle of alternating current, and the subject of Frederic Church's most celebrated landscape; a natural wonder that has bewitched generations of scientists, authors, and utopians, and stimulated innovations and social movements still casting long shadows. ... surprising, rich and engrossing.” -- Thurston Clarke, New York Times Book Review “Canadian historian Berton tells dozens of absorbing tales about the region and those who passed through it ... He tells them all superbly, aided by essential maps and a few reproductions of posters advertising some of the more bizarre stunts.” -- Publishers Weekly “Entertaining. . . . Berton brings to life the adventurers and dreamers, visionaries and industrialists, who over centuries have been drawn to the Falls.” -- Maclean’s "Berton at his storytelling best; there is something here for everyone. ... a vintage, full-bodied read." -- The London Free Press "A book worth diving into." -- Calgary Herald "By turns ironic, amused, shocked, horrified and awestruck, Berton traces Niagara's history through the deeds of those who came in contact with it ... all the while walking the fine line between detachment and emotion with agility and grace." -- The Whig-Standard (Kingston) Pierre Berton was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific authors, and is widely credited with popularizing Canadian history. His previous books include The Wild Frontier, Prisoners of the North, Klondike, The Invasion of Canada, and The Great Depression.
Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Subject index written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Submitting to the Canal Board the Report of L L Nichols George R Perkins and M S Kimball on Amsden s Hydrostatic Scale written by New York (State). Canal Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Welland Canals and Their Communities written by John N. Jackson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the role and contributions of the four Welland Canals to the development of Niagara Peninsula communities.
Download or read book Scientific American written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.
Download or read book Annual Report written by New York. State Engineer and Surveyor and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
