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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Other Books by This Author
Contents
Maps
Cast of Major Characters
The Great Canadian Photograph
One
1. The end and the beginning
2. How John Macoun altered the map
3. The first of the CPR towns
4. The “paid ink-slingers”
5. Enter Van Horne
Two
1. The great Winnipeg boom
2. Fool’s paradise
3. “Towns cannot live of themselves”
4. The bubble bursts
Three
1. The new broom
2. Five hundred miles of steel
3. End of Track
4. Edgar Dewdney’s new capital
5. The Grand Trunk declares war
Four
1. “Hell’s Bells Rogers”
2. On the Great Divide
3. The Major finds his pass
4. The Prairie Gopher
5. “The loneliness of savage mountains”
Five
1. Onderdonk’s lambs
2. “The beardless children of China”
3. Michael Haney to the rescue
4. The Sentinel of Yale
Six
1. The Promised Land
2. The displaced people
3. Prohibition
4. The magical influence
5. George Stephen’s disastrous gamble
6. The CPR goes political
Seven
1. The armoured shores of Superior
2. Treasure in the rocks
3. The Big Hill
4. “The ablest railway general in the world”
5. The Pacific terminus
6. Not a dollar to spare
7. The edge of the precipice
Eight
1. Eighteen eighty-five
2. Riel: the return of the Messiah
3. “I wish I were well out of it”
4. Marching as to war
5. The cruel journey
Nine
1. A new kind of Canadian
2. Stephen throws in the towel
3. Riot at Beavermouth
4. The eleventh hour
5. A land no longer lonely
6. Craigellachie
Aftermath
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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