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The following is the Table of Contents from The Builders of the Rideau Canal, 1826-32, Manuscript Report 185 by Edward F. Bush, Parks Canada, 1976. Republished by Friends of the Rideau as digital book DB-MR185, 2009:
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1 Prologue 2 Inception 3 The Founder of Bytown 6 Preliminary Arrangements 8 Organization 10 The Engineer Department 11 The Military 14 The Contractors 18 Labour: Artificers, Tradesmen, Navvies 25 The Ague 29 A Frontier Society 38 The Canal and its Builders 39 1827: The Ground is Broken 43 1828: Policy Conflict, Sickness 47 1829: Recurrent Fever and the Failure of the Hog's Back Dam 50 1830: Slander and Impediments 59 1831: Litigation 66 1832: Opening of the Canal and By's Recall 70 Postscript 70 Parliamentary Inquiry 73 By's Death 75 Commemoration 79 Biographical Sketches 79 Lieutenant Colonel John By, RE 81 Royal Engineers 81 Captain Daniel Bolton 82 Lieutenant Robert Boteler 82 Lieutenant Henry Briscoe 83 Captain Pennel Cole 83 Sargeant Joseph Coombes 83 Lieutenant John Cromie 84 Lieutenant William Thomas Denison 85 Lieutenant Edward Frome 85 Lieutenant Henry Pooley 86 Captain James Conway Victor 87 Engineer Department 87 N.H. Baird 89 John Burrows 93 Thomas Burrowes 95 James Fitzgibbon 95 John MacTaggart 101 The Contractors 101 James Clowes 101 Robert Drummond 105 Walter Welsh Fenlon 105 Haggart 106 William Hartwell 107 Thomas McKay 111 John Pennyfeather 112 John Redpath 115 Richardson 115 James Simpson 115 Thomas Phillips and Andrew White 116 A.C. Stevens 117 Philemon Wright and Sons 118 Miscellanea 118 Rev. A. Ansley, chaplain 118 Alexander James Christie, "physician" 120 Thomas Jenkins, tailor 120 Dr. John Edward Rankin, physician and surgeon 120 Dr. M.H. Tuthill, physician and surgeon 121 Appendix A. Suspensions & Dismissals, Engineer Department 122 Appendix B. Land Petitions: Royal Sappers and Miners 122 William Adam 123 William Addison 123 Robert Bray 123 William R. Broad 123 John Burgoyne 124 James Callaway 124 Philip Clogge 124 Thomas Duffy 125 James Dykes 125 Thomas Finn 125 William Fleming 125 William Flowers 125 William Fraser 126 Robert Gilvear 126 George Hamilton 126 George Hay 127 Thomas Jenkins 127 John Jones 127 Thomas Jones 127 Thomas Little 127 Daniel MacDonald 128 David Mitchell 128 William Mitchell 128 William Muchmore 128 John Newman 129 Thomas Newman 129 Edward Pascoe 129 Hugh Patrick 129 Samuel Patrick 129 Robert Peck 130 John Porteous and Robert Clements 130 Michael Rowe 130 Archibald Sands 130 Stephen Simmonds 131 George Sims 131 John Smith 131 Robert Snowdell 131 Samuel Spry 131 John White 133 Appendix C. Nominal List, Royal Sappers and Miners Disbanded on the Rideau, December 1831 137 Appendix D. Nominal List, Royal Sappers and Miners Repatriated 139 Appendix E. Proposed Establishment of the Royal Engineer Department at the Rideau Canal, 1828 141 Appendix F. Work Sheets, Philemon Wright and Sons, November 1827 - April 1829 167 Appendix G. Requisition Lists, September 1826 - December 1829 190 Endnotes 212 Bibliography |