The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways
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- 'The surveyor, often an explorer as well, striking out into the wilderness in search of mountain pass or lower grade.' From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys
- THE
- RAILWAY BUILDERS
- A Chronicle of Overland Highways
- OSCAR D. SKELTON
- TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1916
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I
- THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY
- CHAPTER II
- EARLY TRAVEL IN CANADA
- CHAPTER III
- THE CALL FOR THE RAILWAY
- CHAPTER IV
- THE CANADIAN BEGINNINGS
- The first railway engine in Canada. Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad, 1837. From a print in the Château de Ramezay.
- Railroads and Lotteries. An Early Canadian Prospectus
- CHAPTER V
- THE GRAND TRUNK ERA
- Sir Francis Hincks. From a portrait in the Dominion Archives
- Railways of British North America, 1860
- CHAPTER VI
- THE INTERCOLONIAL
- CHAPTER VII
- THE CANADIAN PACIFIC—BEGINNINGS
- Sir George Simpson. From a print in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library
- Sir Sandford Fleming. From a photograph by Topley
- Fleming Route and the Transcontinentals
- Railways of Canada, 1880
- CHAPTER VIII
- BUILDING THE CANADIAN PACIFIC
- Lord Strathcona. From a photograph by Lafayette, London
- Lord Mount Stephen. From a photograph by Wood and Henry, Dufftown. By courtesy of Sir William Van Horne
- Sir William Cornelius Van Horne. From a photograph by Notman
- CHAPTER IX
- THE ERA OF AMALGAMATION
- Railways of Canada, 1896
- CHAPTER X
- THE CANADIAN NORTHERN
- Canadian Northern Railway, 1914
- CHAPTER XI
- THE EXPANSION OF THE GRAND TRUNK
- Charles Melville Hays. From a photograph by Notman
- Grand Trunk System, 1914
- CHAPTER XII
- SUNDRY DEVELOPMENTS
- Canadian Pacific Railway, 1914
- Great Northern Railway, 1914
- Railways of Canada, 1914
- CHAPTER XIII
- SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX
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