Thinking with Water
Author | : Cecilia Chen |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780773589346 |
ISBN-10 | : 0773589341 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Download or read book Thinking with Water written by Cecilia Chen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.