Word: seaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waterways. President Hoover was most anxious to negotiate an agreement with Canada for joint development of the St. Lawrence as a seaway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. The King Government was favorably inclined to such a project. Prime Minister Bennett was understood to oppose it on the theory that it would benefit the U. S. midwest at the expense of the Canadian northwest. Potent objections were also made by the province of Quebec which feared damage to its shipping at Montreal and Quebec, loss of hydroelectric power...
...passed a $110,000,000 River and Harbor improvement bill. Chief contest: acquisition by the U. S. from New York State of the Erie Canal, a money-loser. Western members, pledged to the St. Lawrence waterway, flayed this transfer as a New York plot to kill off the seaway through Canada...