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In Progress:
A Casual Look at the Canadian Grain Trade:
The Maritime Trader
At the turn of the 19th Century, the Canadian Grain Route meant only one thing...
sending grain by ship from Thunder Bay, Ontario, to the St. Lawrence River. Today, much
has changed. Even with the evolution of the St. Lawrence Seaway System the once
prolific Great Lakes grain trade is much diminished.
Listen to the author's proofreading of the text.
Maritime_Trader.mp3
audio
In Progress:
ILA Local
1037: The Superior ILA at the start of the Seaway.
The Superior longshoremen's union was chartered in 1959 just after
the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Fifty years later the 2nd and 3rd
generation workers talk about their families and the early days of the
longshoremen's union in Superior.
