books.google.ca - In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project for...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Golden_Dream.html?id=rvEV1-MhUt8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Golden Dream