Download or read book Rails Across Canada written by Tom Murray and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few stories in the annals of railroading are as compelling as the construction, evolution, and astounding successes of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. This sprawling volume combines two of Voyageur Press' most successful Railroad Color History titles into one volume taking in the grand scope of both railroads. Author Tom Murray presents fastidiously researched and concisely presented histories of each railroad, along with more than 300 photographs, including rare archival black-and-white images and modern and period color photography sourced from national archives and private collections.
Download or read book Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada written by Omer Lavallée and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada is a survey course about one of the most interesting chapters in Canadian railway history. The late Omer Lavallee's original work was published by Railfare Books in 1972, and soon sold out. Long-sought by collectors, historians and railway enthusiasts, his excellent material has now been expanded (over 40 percent) by the author's long-time friend and collaborator, editor Ronald Ritchie. Omer Lavallee's survey indicates the Province of Ontario, Canada, was the birth place - in July 1871 - of the first narrow gauge steam-operated public railway in North America . . . and the Lingan Colliery Tramway in Cape Breton may have been - in 1866 - the first narrow gauge steam-operated railway in the Western Hemisphere. Two dozen different railway systems are covered within the book's twenty-five chapters. There are 192 rare photographs - including a section of 66 full-color photos - interesting sketches, and informative maps of each line to show route details. These are keyed to an overall map, pinpointing the railway's exact location within Canada. Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada contains listings of railway mileage, chronological and geographical facts about each system, and locomotive information. Several other useful features include: time-mileage charts, 50 diagrams, charts and tables, equipment rosters for virtually all the railways, and gradient profiles of three steeply-graded mountain routes. The book includes a specially-commissioned painting by famed railway artist Wentworth Folkins, illustrating Newfoundland Railway's Overland approaching Port-aux-Basque on the last lap of its 547-mile journey from Newfoundland's capital city, St. John's.
Download or read book The Canadian National Railways Story written by Patrick C. Dorin and published by Seattle : Superior Publishing Company; Saanichton, B.C. : Hancock House Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railways of Canada for 1870 1 written by John Malcolm Trout and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railways of Canada written by Edw. Trout and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Download or read book Canadian Railway and Marine World written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railways of Canada written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway written by Harold Adams Innis and published by London, McClelland. This book was released on 1923 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway King of Canada written by R. B. Fleming and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada’s best known entrepreneurs. He spearheaded some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada during his lifetime – building enterprises that became the foundations for such major institutions as Canadian National Railways, Brascan, and the Toronto Transit Commission. He built a business empire that stretched from Montreal to British Columbia and to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil. It included gas, electric, telephone and transit utilities, railroads, hotels, and steamships as well as substantial coal mining, whaling, and timber interests. For a time Mackenzie also owned Canada's largest newspaper, La Presse. He accumulated an enormous personal fortune, but when he died in 1923, his estate was virtually bankrupt as a result of the dramatic collapse of his Canadian Northern Railway during the First World War. In an era when the entrepreneur has come to be seen as a media hero and when struggles about the role of state enterprise in the transportation and energy sectors consume public policy debate, it is ironic that Mackenzie is largely forgotten by all but a few historians and railway aficionados. He left no papers to guide biographers. After a decade of gathering and piecing together fragments from an immense array of sources, Rae Fleming has written the first biography of the man that the German press extolled as the “Railway King of Canada.” Mackenzie was wily, crafty, manipulative, and intimidating. Starting as a general contractor in Eldon Township in rural Ontario, he built a small fortune contracting for the CPR in the Selkirks in the 1880s and then moved on to bigger things. Along the way, he funded the first full-length documentary movie, was toasted by the House of Lords, received a knighthood from George V, and developed close friendships with the major politicians of his day, including Borden and Meighen. In a business biography intended as much for general readers as for a scholarly audience, Fleming offers a revisionist perspective on Mackenzie. He dispels the simplistic approach of those historians and journalists who have depicted Mackenzie and his partner Sir Donald Mann as melodramatic crooks who could have stepped out of the pages of Huckleberry Finn.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Railways and Canals written by Canada. Department of Railways and Canals and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts written by Valerie Wyatt and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From earth-shattering innovations and amazing inventions to achievements in government, culture and history, Canadians have played a major role in shaping the world. With almost 150 entries --- in categories such as technology, nature, transportation and food --- this title in the Kids Book of series explores the many events and discoveries that are firsts in Canada or the world. Photographs, coins, stamps, paintings and patent drawings give the book distinctive visual appeal. As well, quotes, profiles, fact boxes and a timeline reveal further information about these unique achievements. Kids can read about ? the first stamp in the world to feature an animal ? the world's first chocolate bar ? the first dinosaur bones found in Canada ? the first light bulb ever --- yes, it was invented in Canada, and not by Thomas Edison!
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Railways and Canals written by Canada. Dept. of Railways and Canals and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads of Canada written by Robert Ferguson Legget and published by New York : Drake Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spanning the sub-continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans and from the US border to the Arctic, the [railway] system is operated by some two dozen railways, of which the Canadian Pacific accounts for rather more than one-third of the total and Canadian National...just over a half. The co-existence of these two great railways - usually competing but often co-operating, one nationalised, the other one of the world's greatest private-enterprise corporations - presents a unique, even Gilbertian situation. How it arose, how the railways of Canada grew out of small portage links and how they are operated today is the theme of this book"--from front jacket flap.
Download or read book The Great Railway Illustrated written by Pierre Berton and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission to Inquire Into Railways and Transportation in Canada written by Canada. Royal Commission on Railways and Transportation (1916-1917) and published by Ottawa: Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. This book was released on 1917 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Spike written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre Berton recreates the adventures that were part of this vast undertaking: the railway on the brink of bankruptcy, with one hour between it and ruin; the extraordinary land boom of Winnipeg in 1881–1882; and the epic tale of how William Van Horne rushed 3,000 soldiers over a half-finished railway to quell the Riel Rebellion. Dominating the whole saga are the men who made it all possible — a host of astonishing characters: Van Horne, the powerhouse behind the vision of a transcontinental railroad; Rogers, the eccentric surveyor; Onderdonk, the cool New Yorker; Stephen, the most emotional of businessmen; Father Lacombe, the black-robed voyageur; Sam Steele, of the North West Mounted Police; Gabriel Dumont, the Prince of the Prairies; more than 7,000 Chinese workers, toiling and dying in the canyons of the Fraser Valley; and many more — land sharks, construction geniuses, politicians, and entrepreneurs — all of whom played a role in the founding of the new Canada west of Ontario.
Download or read book Railway Nationalization in Canada written by Leslie Thomas Fournier and published by New York : Arno Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the financial and operating record of the Canadian National Railway System in comparison with its private competitor, the Canadian Pacific Railway System. The author offers solutions to the problem posed by the uneconomic competition between the two rail lines.
