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Canada and the United States

John N. Jackson. The Welland Canals and Their Communities: Engineering, Industrial, and Urban Transformation. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1997. PP. xvi, 535. $70.00.

Near the tourist magnet of the Niagara Falls, several massive engineering achievements function with little fanfare, until something goes wrong. These projects include Ontario and New York power generating stations and the Welland Canal. On the Niagara peninsula of Ontario, a borderland region with enduring ties to New York state, a progression of four canals was built to link Lake Erie and Ontario. The First Canal opened in 1829 and served a double purpose: to carry goods around the falls and to furnish power for mill sites. Unlike the Erie Canal, which it was supposed to rival, this canal carried sailing vessels and not mere canal barges. . . .

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