The Welland Canals and their Communities : : Engineering, Industrial, and Urban Transformation / / John Jackson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

For over 170 years the Welland Canals have been a major industrial catalyst and an important agent of urban evolution, spawning a series of distinct communities along the length of the canals between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Four Welland canals have crossed Southern Ontario's Niagara Peninsula since 1829, and each update fostered a renewed economic expansion. The most recent change came in 1959, when the new St. Lawrence Seaway system opened the canal and the Niagara Peninsula to the Atlantic Ocean.The Welland Canals and Their Communities is an in-depth examination of the history and influence of each canal. It traces the changes over time in engineering elements such as the canal route, its water supply and flow, and its form, including locks, weirs, bridges, and other structures that have successively modified both the landscape and drainage pattern of its regional surroundings. In addition to these marine elements, John N. Jackson looks at the movements of vessels, the changing types of ships that have used the canal, and the economic character of trading flows within and through the canal to provide a detailed portrait of the interaction between transportation and land use at both the local and regional level.The changing canal scene and the evolution, form, and character of the canal communities provide the dual emphasis of Jackson's narrative, which concludes with an appreciation of the canal system and its potential at a time when heritage and tourist concerns rise to the fore across the Niagara Peninsula.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Welland Canal within the World Experience of Canals -- Part 1: The Development and Impact on Settlement of the First and Second Canals to the Early 1850s -- 1. The First Canal: From Inception to Completion in 1829 -- 2. The First Canal Reaches Lake Erie, and a Second Canal Is Constructed -- 3. The Regional Significance of the Canal for Pioneer Life -- 4. The Canal Settlements by the Early 1850s -- Part 2: The Second and Third Canals and Their Communities from the 1850s to the 1910s -- 5. An Expanding Infrastructure of Development -- 6. The Changing Character of the Canal Communities -- 7. Two Lake Ports, and the Eastern and Western Arms of the Canal -- 8. The Inland Centres of Welland, Allanburg, and Port Robinson -- 9. Across the Niagara Escarpment from Thorold to Merritton -- 10. St Catharines: Industrial Giant of the Canal Communities -- Part 3: The Third and Fourth Canals Reflect Community Advance from 1914 to the 1960s -- 11. The Achievement and Character of the Fourth Canal -- 12. An Interlude in the Process of Urban Growth -- 13. The Emergence of a Linked Urban-Industrial Complex -- Part 4: The St Lawrence Seaway Authority and the Welland Canals Corridor of Development, Post-1960 -- 14. The Welland Canal as Part of the St Lawrence Seaway -- 15. The Trading Scene and the Regional Economy -- 16. An Urban-Industrial Corridor of Development -- 17. The Canals as Heritage and Amenity -- 18. The Reuse of the Abandoned Fourth Canal at Welland -- 19. Towards a Welland Canals Parkway -- Epilogue: The Changing Canal Scene -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index