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Title: The Railway Builders
A Chronicle of Overland Highways

Author: Oscar D. Skelton

Release Date: November 20, 2009 [EBook #30509]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's note: This book has varying page headers. Those headers
have been collected at the start of each chapter as an introductory
paragraph.]

[Frontispiece: '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

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

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CONTENTS

Page

I. THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. EARLY TRAVEL IN CANADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
III. THE CALL FOR THE RAILWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
IV. THE CANADIAN BEGINNINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
V. THE GRAND TRUNK ERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
VI. THE INTERCOLONIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
VII. THE CANADIAN PACIFIC--BEGINNINGS . . . . . . . . 109
VIII. BUILDING THE CANADIAN PACIFIC . . . . . . . . . 131
IX. THE ERA OF AMALGAMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
X. THE CANADIAN NORTHERN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
XI. THE EXPANSION OF THE GRAND TRUNK . . . . . . . . 196
XII. SUNDRY DEVELOPMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
XIII. SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

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ILLUSTRATIONS

'THE SURVEYOR, OFTEN AN EXPLORER AS WELL,
STRIKING OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS IN SEARCH
OF MOUNTAIN PASS OR LOWER GRADE' . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.

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