Download or read book The Golden Dream written by Ronald Stagg and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project for fifty years until Canada suddenly decided to build a seaway alone, pressuring the American Congress to co-operate. The building of the Seaway and its completion in 1959, involved engineering on an unprecedented scale and significant human dislocation. During construction, communities along the Great Lakes planned for increased prosperity, but changes in transportation, aging infrastructure, and environmental problems have mean that "the Golden Dream" has not been fully realized, even today. This popular history chronicles the rise of one of the great engineering projects in Canadian history and its controversial impact on the people living along the St. Lawrence River.
Download or read book Wooden Boats of the St Lawrence River written by David Kunz and Bill Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--
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 384 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 St Lawrence Seaway Navigation Season written by St. Lawrence Seaway Authority (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cruising Guide to the Hudson River Lake Champlain the St Lawrence River written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pandora s Locks written by Jeff Alexander and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.
Download or read book Questions and Answers on the St Lawrence Seaway written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on St. Lawrence Seaway and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The St Lawrence Seaway and Power Project written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation written by Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Lawrence River and Seaway written by Terri Willis and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Beaumont Bequest book.
Download or read book St Lawrence Seaway and Power Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (82) S.J. Res. 27, (82) S.J. Res. 111.
Download or read book St Lawrence Seaway written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Lawrence Seaway written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on St. Lawrence Seaway and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great St Lawrence Seaway written by Gail Gibbons and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers can sail along on this exciting trip up the St. Lawrence Seaway, the largest inland waterway in the world. "A glowing picture book that explains the history and workings of this great trade route....A beautiful book."--School Library Journal
Download or read book St Lawrence Seaway written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 83-8. Considers legislation to establish the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.
Download or read book Negotiating a River written by Daniel Macfarlane and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a megaproject half a century in the making -- a technological and engineering marvel that stands as one of the most ambitious borderlands undertakings ever embarked upon by two countries. The planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project is one of the defining episodes in North American history. The project began with transnational negotiations that spanned two world wars and the formative years of the Cold War and included a failed attempt to construct an all-Canadian seaway, which was scuttled by US national security fears. Once an agreement was reached, the massive engineering and construction operation began, as did the efforts to move people and infrastructure away from the thousands of acres of land that would soon be flooded. Negotiating a River looks at the profound impacts of this megaproject, from the complex diplomatic negotiations, political manoeuvring, and environmental diplomacy to the implications on national identities and transnational relations.
Download or read book St Lawrence Seaway written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
