Thinking with Water

By Astrida Neimanis, Janine MacLeod, Cecilia Chen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773541802
• ISBN13: 9780773541801
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.4"