TY - BOOK ID - 77885544 TI - A respectable ditch : a history of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920 PY - 1988 SN - 128285092X 9786612850929 0773561331 9780773561335 0773505970 9780773505971 0773518215 9780773518216 6612850922 9781282850927 PB - Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Business & Economics KW - Transportation Economics KW - Trent-Severn Waterway (Ont.) KW - History. KW - Trent Canal (Ont.) KW - Trent Valley Canal (Ont.) KW - Waterways UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885544 AB - 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. ER -