The Seaway

Author : Ronald Stagg
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770705319

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The Golden Dream by Ronald Stagg Pdf

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.

Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393246445

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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan Pdf

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.

Author : Claire Puccia Parham
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0815609132

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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project by Claire Puccia Parham Pdf

The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most important public works initiatives of the twentieth century. Seen as vital to North American commerce and strategic in advancing America’s position on the world stage, the billion-dollar seaway and power dam were also a phenomenal feat of engineering, involving an unprecedented level of cooperation between Canadian and American agencies and the unrelenting efforts of workers on both sides of the border. Dubbed the greatest construction show on earth, the largest waterway and hydro dam project ever jointly built by two nations consisted of seven locks, the widening of various canals, the taming of rapids, and the erection of the 3,216-foot-long, 195.5-foot-high Robert Moses–Robert H. Saunders Power Dam. In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women who accompanied them. This book is a fitting tribute to the hard work and dedication of the project’s 22,000 workers.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and Harbors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
ISBN : MINN:31951D03586957X

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St. Lawrence Seaway by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and Harbors Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Saint Lawrence River
ISBN : LOC:0018706630A

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St. Lawrence Seaway by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015023934782

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Annual Report by United States. Department of Transportation Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015026256746

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : William H. Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Saint Lawrence Seaway
ISBN : UCR:31210023605825

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From the Atlantic to the Great Lakes by William H. Becker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738565105

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The Thousand Islands by Anonim Pdf

The Thousand Islands are more than 1,800 islands located in 35 miles of the upper St. Lawrence River between Upstate New York and southeastern Ontario. During the latter half of the 19th century, the region evolved as a vacation destination, initially for Canadian and American urbanites drawn by the restorative powers of spectacular scenery and relaxed summer life. Tourism expanded rapidly, and by the early 1900s, the Thousand Islands boasted dozens of grand hotels, daily railroad connections to New York and Philadelphia, steamship service to Montreal and Toronto, innumerable sightseeing and guided fishing excursions, and the best that North Americas premier vacation spot could offer.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116501412

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Exports
ISBN : UCBK:C109480658

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Regional Export Expansion by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business Pdf

Considers prospects and problems for small businesses in long term export market for timber, fish and agricultural products from the Pacific Northwest. Hearing was held in Portland, Oreg., pt. 1; Hearing, held in Mobile, Ala., focuses on agricultural and industrial exporting activities in Alabama and Mississippi, pt. 2; Hearing, held in Milwaukee, Wis., focuses on role of small enterprises in Wisconsin exporting activities, pt. 3; Examines the potentials and problems of developing exports of small business and regional industries over the next decade. Hearings were held in Miami, Fla., pt. 4; Reviews U.S. international trade posture and balance of payments deficit, to identify means of expanding northeast regional exports and increase involvement of small business. Focuses on implementation of GATT Kennedy Round tariffs revisions, improvement of port and harbor facilities, increased loan authority for the Export-Import Bank, and overseas markets for U.S. goods. May 3 hearing was held in Newark, N.J.; and May 6 hearing was held in New York City, pt. 5; Continuation of hearings on the problems of expanding exports of small businesses and regional industries over a ten year period, pt. 6

Author : Jeff Alexander
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609171971

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Pandora's Locks by Jeff Alexander Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Macfarlane
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774826464

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Negotiating a River by Daniel Macfarlane Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aids to navigation
ISBN : UOM:39015054024198

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Sailing Directions (enroute). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carleton Mabee
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Saint Lawrence Seaway
ISBN : UOM:39015023851929

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The Seaway Story by Carleton Mabee Pdf

Recounts, for the general reader, the entire story of the St. Lawrence Seaway project, from its inception to its present day uses. Emphasis is on Canadian-American coordination, and on the impact which the project has had upon the surrounding area and on the development of trade.