The giant staircase
Subtitle: building the Welland Canal
By: by Carl Alfred Friesen.
Publisher: Niagara Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: St. Catharines, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Canals -- Fiction.; Welland Canal (Ont.); Welland Canal (Ont.) -- Fiction.; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.; Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Escaping the hardships of the  Irish Potato Famine in 1826, Mike O'Brien and his parents settle in Canada where they endure natural and man-made disasters during the building of the Welland Canal.
Notes: "Historical fiction for 10-14 yr. olds (gr. 5-8)"--P. [4] of cover.