How Long to Read This Colossal Project

How Long Does it Take to Read This Colossal Project?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 22 minutes to read This Colossal Project by Roberta McAfee Styran

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This Colossal Project presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls. An immense undertaking, the canal is a vital part of North America's infrastructure and still functions as an essential part of the St Lawrence Seaway. Emphasizing the role that vivid personalities - including engineers John Laing Weller and Alex Grant as well as contractors and labourers - played in the construction of the canal, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor use archival sources, government documents, newspapers, maps, and original plans to describe a saga of technological, financial, geographical, and social obstacles met and overcome in an accomplishment akin to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A story of Canadian skill, courage, vision, and hardship, This Colossal Project details the twenty-year excavation of the giant channel and the creation of huge concrete locks amidst war, the Great Depression, political change, and labour unrest. Building on the work presented in Styran and Taylor's This Great National Object, which told the story of the first three Welland canals built in the nineteenth century, This Colossal Project chronicles an impressive milestone in the history of Canadian technological achievement and nation building.

How long is This Colossal Project?

This Colossal Project by Roberta McAfee Styran is 369 pages long, and a total of 95,571 words.

This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 117% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read This Colossal Project Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 42 minutes to read This Colossal Project aloud.

What Reading Level is This Colossal Project?

This Colossal Project is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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