The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Railway Builders
by Oscar D. Skelton
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About this eBook
- Author
- Skelton, Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas), 1878-1941
- Title
- The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Pacific railroads
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30509
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30509
- Release Date
- November 20, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.'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
- 2.THE — RAILWAY BUILDERS — A Chronicle of Overland Highways — BY — OSCAR D. SKELTON — TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1916
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.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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