Title: Building Canada : people and projects that shaped the nation /
Authors: Vance, Jonathan F. 1963-
Publisher: Penguin Canada,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics) Canada History.; Building Canada History.; Architects and builders Canada History.; Public buildings Canada History.; Public works Canada History.; National characteristics, Canadian.; Building Canada.
Contents: The ways most travelled: Handshakes across the water -- A unity based on road and wheel -- A vast aerial highway. "Let us think that we build forever": In every way worthy of the province -- In character with a northern country -- Making war on cultural poverty. How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?: A moveable post office -- Calling rural Canada -- Switches control everything but the children. Icons of a nation: Castles of the new world -- Towers of power -- Carved in imperishable granite.