This one was sent in by David, compares the canal era to the new train era.
Written by Robin Neill at the University of Prince Edward Island and Carleton University in 2003
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Hamilton surpassed Dundas in size and activity between 1826 and 1832,
because the Burlington Bay Canal was opened in 1827, while the Desjardins Canal
to Dundas was not completed for another ten years. The Grand River Canal was built
by Sir Alan Napier McNabb and his associates in 1832. It was intended to bypass
Hamilton and Dundas as centers through which settlers were passing in increasing
numbers into what is now South Western Ontario. Neither the Grand River nor the
Desjardins Canals were fully operative when railways inland from Hamilton were
first projected. The London and Gore Railway and the Hamilton and Port Dover
Railway Companies were both incorporated in 1834. Hamilton began its climb into
the Railroad Epoch only five years after the first use of steam locomotion in the
United States, and only four years after the initial run of Britain’s Liverpool and
Manchester Railway, the first steam line built for the purpose of carrying passengers
as well as goods.
Read more;
http://economics.acadiau.ca/tl_file...A/Papers and Procedings/2003/R.Neill.2003.pdf
Written by Robin Neill at the University of Prince Edward Island and Carleton University in 2003
____________________________________________________
Hamilton surpassed Dundas in size and activity between 1826 and 1832,
because the Burlington Bay Canal was opened in 1827, while the Desjardins Canal
to Dundas was not completed for another ten years. The Grand River Canal was built
by Sir Alan Napier McNabb and his associates in 1832. It was intended to bypass
Hamilton and Dundas as centers through which settlers were passing in increasing
numbers into what is now South Western Ontario. Neither the Grand River nor the
Desjardins Canals were fully operative when railways inland from Hamilton were
first projected. The London and Gore Railway and the Hamilton and Port Dover
Railway Companies were both incorporated in 1834. Hamilton began its climb into
the Railroad Epoch only five years after the first use of steam locomotion in the
United States, and only four years after the initial run of Britain’s Liverpool and
Manchester Railway, the first steam line built for the purpose of carrying passengers
as well as goods.
Read more;
http://economics.acadiau.ca/tl_file...A/Papers and Procedings/2003/R.Neill.2003.pdf