Industry in the Wilderness
The People, the Buildings, the Machines — Heritage in Northwestern Ontario
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1983
- Category
- General, Western
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919670662
- Publish Date
- Jan 1983
- List Price
- $25.00
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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.