Download or read book Forgotten Monorails of Canada written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of monorails in Canada from 1896 to 2020. From Vancouver BC to Cavendish PEI, Canada has had 6 monorails that have been in operation in the past. Two monorails are still in operation. What makes this book unique is it also reviews all the monorail proposals that have been pitched in over the years and there has been a lot of them. Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Montreal are some of the cities that had studies done looking at monorail as a possible transit system. Montreal alone has had over 15 studies that included monorails as a possible option. Did you know that demonstration lines were built in Fort Saskatchewan and Niagara Falls? Low-speed and High-speed monorails ideas have been pitched. You won't find this topic covered on Wikipedia or in a Google search. Over 200 newspaper articles referenced.
Download or read book The 1969 Tri Mono Trans TMT High Speed Monorail Proposal written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Californian Lamartine Cavanaugh (Marty) Trent designed a high-speed rail monorail capable of going 300 mph (482 km/h). Marty was an engineer for the North American Rockwell Corporation. It was originally designed as a toy for his daughters to play with. He patented the idea and his company seriously reviewed it as a public transportation system. For the first time ever, all the known documents, photos and patents related to the proposal have been put together in a 35 page booklet.
Download or read book The History of Fisher Mills and Beaverdale Ontario written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical communities of Fisher Mills and Beaverdale, Ontario just outside of Cambridge, Ontario have largely been forgotten until now. Author Paul Langan researched the areas and have brought them back to life. Included in the book are chapters on: Early History of Fisher Mills,The Mill, Dam & Pond, Edward Snyder & Snyder’s Potato Chips,Two Hotels, Stager General Store, M&S Potatoes, Significant Homes of Fisher Mills, Maple Grove School, Zion United Church & Cemetery Fact Sheet, The 1829 Samuel Bechtel Meetinghouse, School & Burial Ground, Squire Ellis, Daniel Beaver,Ed Ratcliffe, The Homes of Beaverdale,Hockey in Beaverdale,Wanner Mennonite Church & Cemetery Fact Sheet and the Wanner Woods & Trail. Interviews, rare maps and photos!
Download or read book The History of The Brothers In Law 1963 1970 From Windsor Ontario written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windsor Ontario's The Brother-In-Law folk group performed from 1963 to 1970. The group originally consisted of police officers. Their first album sold over 240,000 copies. This booklet looks back at their career with interviews with original members Alec Somerville and Larry Reaume.
Download or read book Hespeler s Hidden Secret The Coombe Home 1905 1947 written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coombe was a home in Hespeler, Ontario. From 1905-1913, Smyly Homes in Dublin Ireland sent children to Canada for a better life. After a short period at the Coombe they were shipped out to the farms or homes to work and live. From 1913- 1947, the Children's Aid Society ran the home. It was also used as a temporary detention centre. This book captures not only the history of the Coombe but also stories of the children who lived there. The experiences of the kids range from being treated like members of the family to situations of abuse. This book will stay in your memory for years to come.
Download or read book Idylwild Park The Forgotten Paradise 1895 1919 in colour written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idylwild Park was located between Preston and Hespeler, Ontario along the Galt, Preston, Hespeler Electric Railway line. It has been over a century since it was in operation, and there is no trace of its existence now. Yet, people are intrigued to learn more about it. This booklet, for the first time, collects all the information on Idylwild Park including photos, articles, postcards, interviews and maps. The rare 1896 railway map confirms the location of the park. The edition of this booklet is in colour.
Download or read book The True Story of the 1899 Shipwreck of the Scotsman written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Scotsman” ocean liner slammed into Belle Isle off the northern coast of Newfoundland, September 22nd, 1899 leaving 14 dead. This tragic event turned even more devastating as firemen on the crew, hired on as “scabs” in England, began a drunken rampage and robbed passengers of their belongings. Stranded in the harsh climate of Belle Isle, men, women and children fought to survive. This harrowing tale is classic in Canadian maritime history. Included are interviews with shipwreck survivors, newspaper accounts, rare photos and the official report related to the event.
Download or read book Sabotage in Hespeler written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WWI was raging and our Canadian boys were fighting and dying overseas. On February 3rd, 1916, our Parliament building in Ottawa burned to the ground under suspicious circumstances. On February 6th, 1916, the A.B. Jardine Munitions Factory in Hespeler, Ontario was destroyed by fire. Was the fire set by German spies? Paul Langan weaves a creative non-fiction short story based on the facts uncovered that fateful day in Hespeler. (4000 words)
Download or read book Classic Hockey Stories Volume 2 From the Golden Age of Pulp Magazines 1930s 1950s written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of Classic Hockey Stories features 9 more classic hockey pulp stories, novelettes including: Rookie Came Back, High Stick Bad Man and Goalie Means Guts by Duane Yarnell. The Phantom of the Blue by Joe Gregg, Tiger of the Rink by John Wilson, Blood for Goals by John Wilson, The Quick and the Dead by William J. O'Sullivan, How to Play Hockey like 1922 by Alfred Winsor, Crazy Blades by John Prescott. Plus a bonus pulp comic - B Turk Broda – Prize Winning Goalie
Download or read book Canadian Foundryman and Metal Industry News written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Rail written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents in Canadian Architecture written by Geoffrey Simmins and published by Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legacy of Warren Bolster Master of Skateboard Photography written by Warren Bolster and published by Concrete Wave. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traffic written by Tom Vanderbilt and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.
Download or read book Pulp Paper Magazine of Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Libraries written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Download or read book 1967 the Last Good Year written by Pierre Berton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Canadians over the age of forty can forget the feeling of joy and celebration that washed over the country during Canada's centennial year. We were, Pierre Berton reminds us, a nation in love with itself, basking in the warm glow of international applause brought on by the unexpected success of Expo 67 and pumped up by the year-long birthday party that had us all warbling "Ca-na-da, as Bobby Gimby and his gaggle of small children pranced down the byways of the nation. It was a turning-point year, a watershed year--a year of beginnings as well as endings. One royal commission finally came to a close with a warning about the need for a new approach to Quebec. Another was launched to investigate, for the first time, the status of Canadian women. New attitudes to divorce and homosexuality were enshrined in law. A charismatic figure, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, made clear that the state had no place in the bedrooms of the nation. The seeds of Women's Lib, Gay Pride, and even Red Power, were sown in the centennial year. (Of all the pavilions on the Expo site, Berton singles out the Indian pavilion as having the greatest impact.) The country was in a ferment that year. Canadians worried about the Americanization of every institution from the political convention to "Hockey Night in Canada. People talked about the Generation Gap as thousands of flower children held love-ins in city parks. The government tried to respond by launching the Company of Young Canadians, a project that was less than successful. The most significant event of 1967 was Charles de Gaulle's notorious "Vive le Quebec libre!" speech in Montreal. It gave the burgeoning separatist movement a new legitimacy, enhanced by Rene Levesque's departure from the Liberal party later that year. Throughout the book, the author gives us insightful profiles of some of the significant figures of 1967: the centennial activists Judy LaMarsh and John Fisher; the Expo entrepreneurs, Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien and Edward Churchill; Walter Gordon, the fervent nationalist, and his rival, Mitchell Sharp; Lester Pearson and his "bete noire, John Diefenbaker; the three "men of the world" who helped make Canada internationally famous: Marshall McLuhan, Glenn Gould, and Roy Thomson; hippie leaders like David dePoe, American draft dodgers like Mark Satin, women's activists like Doris Anderson and Laura Sabia, youth workers like Barbara Hall, radicals like Pierre Vallieres (author of "White Niggers of America) and such dedicated nationalists as Madame Chaput Rolland and Andre Laurendeau. In spite of the feeling of exultation that marked the centennial year, an opposite sentiment runs through the book like dark thread: the growing fear that the country was facing its gravest crisis. Berton points out that we are far better off today than we were in 1967. "Then why all the hand wringing?" he asks. Because of "the very real fear that the country we celebrated so joyously thirty years ago is in the process of falling apart. "In that sense, 1967 was the last good year before all Canadians began to be concerned about the future of our country."
