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Industry in the Wilderness

The People, the Buildings, the Machines — Heritage in Northwestern Ontario

by (author) Frank Rasky

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1983
Category
General, Western
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919670662
    Publish Date
    Jan 1983
    List Price
    $25.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459713925
    Publish Date
    Jan 1983
    List Price
    $8.99

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Description

Filled with photographs, both historic and contemporary, this engaging book looks at the industrial pioneers of northwestern Ontario, and the activities which brought them to the wilderness: 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.

About the author

Well-known journalist and editor, Frank Rasky is the author of The North Pole Or Bust, The Polar Voyagers, The Taming of the Great Canadian West, and Great Canadian Disasters.

 

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