Commemorating the Century of the Welland Canal, 7 November 1924

Abstract

A booklet commemorating a century of the Welland Canal. The booklet cover reads "The Engineering Institute of Canada Incorporated in 1887 as the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, The Niagara Peninsula Branch, Dinner Meeting, Commemorating the Century of the Welland Canal, 'The Welland' St. Catharines, Friday, November 7th, 1924." Included in the booklet are images of E.W. Beatty (President Canadian Pacific Railway), A.J. Grant (Chief Engineer of New Welland Ship Canal), Hon. WM. Hamilton Merritt (Originator of Welland Canal), and George Keefer (First President of the Welland Canal Company). Other images of the canal and surveys have also been included in the eight page booklet.