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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
BY
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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