Photographs and Newpaper Clippings to Accompany Brochure of Tour Of Inspection of the Saint Lawrence River Seaway and Power Project by the United States House of Representatives Public Works Committee, September, 1947
Washington DC: War Department, 1947. Softcover. Printed stiff wrappers with cloth spine. Very good or somewhat better. 39 pp. Consists of reproductions of photographs and newspaper articles relating to the St. Lawrence Seaway project. A joint venture of the UnitedStates and Canada, it was a major canal and navigable channels project of 15 locks running between the Atlantic Ocean and the western end of Lake Superior. Ity was built along the St. Lawrence River in order to bypass several rapids and dams and to help generate hydroelectric power for Ontario. After years of inaction, the U.S. Congress finally approved the plan in 1954 and the seaway opened for large ships in 1959. Very Good. Item #GE18273
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