Main entry:

Rasky, Frank, 1923-1993

Title & Author:

Industry in the wilderness : the people, the buildings, the machines -- heritage in northwestern Ontario / by Frank Rasky.

Publication:

Toronto : Dundurn Press with the assistance of the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, and the Ontario Ministry of Northern Affairs, 1983.

Description:

128 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Series:

Dundurn local history series ; [1]

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
The Setting -- The Pathfinders (The Granite Shield, the Mammoth Pines, The Little Emperor; The Father of Northwest Place Names; The Duke and Dauphin of Railroad Builders; Bushwackers and Gandy Dancers) -- The Lumberjacks (Timber Wolves or Lumber Lions?; Upper Canada Cossacks; A Sawmill; A Paper Mill) -- The Goldseekers (The Klondike of New Ontario; How They Spent it; Miming Lore; A Gold Mine) --- Getting Around (They Flew By the Seat of Their Pants; Freighter Bob Starratt Pushed 'em through) -- Harnessing Hydro (Hydro Power and Its People; Hydro's Lady Rum Runner and Cowboy Gun Slinger; Hydro Lore; A Hydro Electric Plant) -- Monuments in the Wilderness -- Pioneers.

Summary:

"Filled with photographs, both historic and contemporary, this engaging book looks at the industrial pioneers of northwestern Ontario, and the activites 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."--Pub. desc
"Industry in the Wilderness by Frank Rasky is an account of the overcoming of natural elements in order to harvest the resource wealth of northwestern Ontario. It is part of the Dundurn Local History series. It is an oral history of lumberjacks, gold seekers, bush pilots, and early hydro men. Herein lies the major problem with the book. Rasky attempts to cover four important aspects of northwestern Ontario in only 128 pages. This impossible task is even further complicated by the fact that more than half of the book is devoted to pictures and diagrams ... The pictures and diagrams dominate the book to such an extent that one could ignore the text and still find a wealth of information about the topic. The diagrams of a paper mill, a gold mine, and a hydro-electric power plant could be a valuable teaching aid to students interested in those areas. The pictures are exceptionally good."--Umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol12no5/industryinthewilderness.html

ISBN:

0919670660 (paperback)
9780919670662 (paperback)

Subject:

Industries Ontario History.
Industrie Ontario Histoire.
Industries
Ontario Industrie Histoire.
Ontario

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
History

Added entries:

Ontario. Ministry of Citizenship and Culture.
Ontario. Ministry of Northern Affairs.
Dundurn local history series ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 86581
Call No.: ID CAN; ID:93-B1919
Status: Available