A Synopsis of the Hoover Report on the St. Lawrence Shipway

In 1919, the International Joint Commission between United States and Canada made an investigation of the proposed river improvement between Montreal and Lake Ontario, setting forth its conclusions and recommendations in a report under the date of January 6, 1922. That Commission endorsed a plan for improvement of the St. Lawrence River and recommended that further study be made of the economic and engineering features. Therefore, in accordance with this recommendation a Commission was appointed by the President and a similar one by the Canadian Government known as the National Advisory Committee of Canada. It was agreed by the two governments that a Joint Board of six engineers should be created and a complete survey be made. By the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved March 3, 1925, an item of $250,000 for this survey was allotted and the Board of Engineers of the United States Army were directed to make the examination, The Department of Commerce, at the request of the Commission, undertook a full examination of the economic questions involved and its report was completed and transmitted in January, 1927. All this data together with numerous studies on the part of the members of the Commission have brought it to the following conclusions: 1. The construction of such a shipway from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes, as is proposed, will be of great economic benefit to the lowering of present transportation costs to the interior of the continent and particularly to the region around the Great Lakes. This territory embraces the following states: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. It also includes a large part of Canada

Advisory committee · Archaeology · Civil engineering · Commission · Geography · Geological survey · Government (linguistics · Joint (building · Library science · Plan (archaeology · Political science · American Environmental and Regional History · Engineering · Geology · Law · Public Administration · Transport and Economic Policies