Seaway: The Untold Story of North America's Fourth Seacoast

214 pp. When President Dwight Eisenhower and Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II dedicated the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, the waterway opened the Great Lakes to the international commerce of the world, and gave birth and identity to some 50 US and Canadian Great Lakes ports. Seaway is the story of the saga of legislative in-fighting and construction impossibilities which went into the creation of the waterway. The reader can view efforts to navigate the ice-packed Great Lakes during the winter months under a federal demonstration program to determine the value of keeping ships moving year-round on the lakes. The ports of the Seaway system, from Ogsdensburg, N.Y. to Duluth, Minn.--and covering such major national port cities as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Toledo--are viewed both pictorially and in text, as are the major Canadian ports.