Pavilion1: Farming
Using new methods of crop rotation and improved devices for plowing, cultivating…

Pavilion2: Textiles
A series of new mechanical gadgets—spinning “jennies”, water frames, and “mules” enable good quality thread made at low cost…

Pavilion3: Iron manufacturing
Changes in the iron industry made possible the widespread use of a superior, uniform quality iron in new and varied ways: farming machine, cylinders, piston in steam engines, and rails…

Pavilion4: Power conversion
It was not until the early eighteenth century that serious systematic thought was given to the problem of harnessing the power of confined steam. James Watt developed the steam condenser needed to boost horsepower output. Matthew Boulton fabricated the giant piston and cylinder and seal for the engine.

Pavilion5: Commercial services
Among the most important the expansion of the market and trade were the diffusion of double entry bookkeeping and other accounting techniques and the expansion of banking facilities.

Pavilion6: Transportation
The railroad is the “crowning” achievement of the Industrial Revolution…. Henry Ford's Model "T" car...

Pavilion7: Urban transformation and experience
In 1850, the population of London numbered less than a million people. By 1850 it had increased to two million; at the turn of the century, it reached four million. The whole complex of changes involved in the transition to an industrial, factory system of production pushed peasants off the land and pulled them to the emerging urban areas. Personal and business services were constantly opening up in the town and cities. The industrial cities grew so rapidly, without plan or supervision, that even the most elementary city services could not keep up with population increases. A good example of this was the lack of an adequate water supply. Poor housing, lack of fresh air and sunlight, dirt and disease were the common lot of city dwellers, especially the working class…

Pavilion8:Impact on the family
Industrialization and urbanization fundamentally changed patterns of where people lived and the work they did. Before industrialization, families were quite stable and cohesive. The only word used at that time to describe such a group of people was “family.” “The man at the head of the group, the entrepreneur, the employer, or the manager, was then known as the master or head of the family. There were no sharp distinctions between his domestic and his economic functions.” (Laslett 1966; 4)

American model

Pavilion9: Innovations in farming and manufacturing
The use of the cotton gin and reaper in harvesting and final processing of the two major cash crops, cotton and wheat. There were not borrowed innovations but rather American responses to the frontier abundances of nature and the shortages of labor.

Pavilion10: Pivotal role of transportation and innovations in transportation and construction
Turnpike, canal, stramboat, railroad—this succession of innovation was so widespread in its effects upon economic and social patterns that has been referred by George R. Taylor as the “transportation revolution.” In late1889s, Julian Sprague built the first electrified street railway…

Pavilion 11: The impact of the automobile
Henry Ford and his peers visualized automobile as an all-weather vehicle for getting the farmer to market through mud and snow—as a rural transportation device. The auto industry, in building a new mode of transportation, expands all industries supplying it, including especially rubber, oil, steel, glass, and more recently, plastics and aluminum fabrication. It also shows the need for better roads, bridges, and tunnels…

(Richard T. Geruson 1977)

Pavilion12: Interpretive center of Lachine Canal
In two places bedrock geology has played and important role in the development of the canal—the Lachine Rapid and Mount Royal. See appendix and http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/canallachine/en/histoire