A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1. 4. 1988 - 472 strán (strany) Canada's leaders were key participants. Governor-generals, from Sir Guy Carleton, who ordered the first survey, to Lord Syndenham, who cancelled construction in 1841, were intimately involved in the project. For nearly a century every prime minister, from Francis Hincks, who tried to sell the decaying locks and dams, through John A. Macdonald, who revived the scheme, to Robert Borden, who finally completed it, was caught up in this most persistent public project. But the most important participants were countless little-known Canadians who, for one reason or another, promoted the scheme and doggedly pushed it to a conclusion. This is their story. |
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... Trent River to replace the less than efficient ferry service there . On behalf of a group of businessmen , Bethune promoted and received a charter for a railroad from Cobourg to Rice Lake which , had it been built , would have been the ...
... Trent River to replace the less than efficient ferry service there . On behalf of a group of businessmen , Bethune promoted and received a charter for a railroad from Cobourg to Rice Lake which , had it been built , would have been the ...
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... Trent . These surveys , es- pecially the Catty survey of 1819 , which proved that no satisfactory alter- native to the Trent existed , aroused high expectations among settlers that the Trent River - Lake Simcoe route would be chosen ...
... Trent . These surveys , es- pecially the Catty survey of 1819 , which proved that no satisfactory alter- native to the Trent existed , aroused high expectations among settlers that the Trent River - Lake Simcoe route would be chosen ...
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... Trent River scheme from the standpoint of cost and facility of engineering . Any one of them would have been adequate to handle the inland trade , which in the 1830s was not very heavy . But as will be demonstrated later , because of ...
... Trent River scheme from the standpoint of cost and facility of engineering . Any one of them would have been adequate to handle the inland trade , which in the 1830s was not very heavy . But as will be demonstrated later , because of ...
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... Trent River ; they saw the Trent as the only logical access to Rice Lake . They wanted the waterway principally because the farmers would benefit from the cash - paying jobs the development work would create , the lumberers would ...
... Trent River ; they saw the Trent as the only logical access to Rice Lake . They wanted the waterway principally because the farmers would benefit from the cash - paying jobs the development work would create , the lumberers would ...
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A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920 James T. Angus. proposal for the development of the Trent River , this group really did not care which outlet to Lake Ontario was chosen . Its principal objective was to get a system of ...
A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920 James T. Angus. proposal for the development of the Trent River , this group really did not care which outlet to Lake Ontario was chosen . Its principal objective was to get a system of ...
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THE UNION YEARS 184167 | 71 |
THE MACDONALD YEARS 186796 | 121 |
THE LAURIER YEARS 18961911 | 205 |
THE BORDEN YEARS 191120 | 349 |
Appendix | 407 |
Notes | 411 |
Bibliography | 433 |
Index | 441 |
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Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920 James Thomas Angus Obmedzený náhľad - 1988 |
A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent Severn Waterway, 1833-1920 James Thomas Angus Obmedzený náhľad - 1988 |
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