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

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

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 Peninsu...

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

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