1990/02/01 by Andrew F. Burghardt · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Engineering · #Canadian Identity and History #Transport and Economic Policies #Canadian Policy and Governance #Swift #Geography #Movement (music) #Transport engineering #Engineering #Computer science
paper · pdf · doi:10.7202/1017719ar
openalex publication_date 1990/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The examination of the patterns of transportation before the advent of the railway is of more than antiquarian interest. Most of our urban places were founded before the railway made the movement of freight and people overland, swift and relatively inexpensive. If we are to understand our urban centres adequately, we must go back to their origins; and in Southern Ontario that sets us into the decades when the movement of people and goods was inhibited by constraints imposed by horses, mules, and oxen, by boats of many kinds, and by walking.