Industry in the Wilderness: The People, the Buildings, the Machines -- Heritage in Northwestern Ontario (Dundurn Local History)
Book Details
Author(s)Frank Rasky
PublisherDundurn
ISBN / ASIN0919670660
ISBN-139780919670662
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank5,333,273
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Filled with photographs, both historic and contemporary, this engaging book looks at the industrial pioneers of northwestern Ontario, and the activites which brought themt o the wildnerness: surveying, railroading, lumber, gold, bush piloting, transportation, and hydro power.
Rasky lets the pioneers tell their own story, through their own reminiscences, and by the monuments they have left behind.
Published with the assistance of the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, and the Ontario Ministry of Northern Affairs.
