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Overcoming Niagara : canals, commerce, and tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region, 1792-1837 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larkin, Janet Dorothy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Canals > New York (State) > Niagara Frontier > History > 18th century.
Canals > New York (State) > Niagara Frontier > History > 19th century.
Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) > Commerce > History.
Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) > Description and travel.
Tourism > New York (State) > Niagara Frontier > History.
Erie Canal (N.Y.) > History.
Welland Canal (Ont.) > History.
Oswego Canal (N.Y.) > History.
Borderlands > Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.) > History.
Borderlands > Great Lakes Region (North America) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The "Greatest display in nature" : the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region before the War of 1812
  • "As irresistible as the 'cataract of Niagara'" : the Erie Canal and the promises of the North American canal age
  • "A salutary and desirable competition" : New York State influence in the building of the first Welland Canal
  • The Oswego Canal : "One of the great travelling and commercial thoroughfares"
  • "The great wonder of the canal."