Author: Canadian National RailwaysPublisher: Montréal : Canadian National Railways
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Condensed History of the Canadian National Railway System
Author: Canadian National RailwaysPublisher: Montréal : Canadian National Railways
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Rails Across Canada
Author: Tom MurrayPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1610601394
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
The History and Problems of the Canadian National Railway System
Author: Hampton K. SnellThe Canadian National Railways' Story
Author: Patrick C. DorinPublisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company; Saanichton, B.C. : Hancock House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Canadian National Railway System : Synoptical History of Organization, Capital Stock, Funded Debt and Other General Information
Author: Canadian National RailwaysPublisher: Accounting Department, [Canadian National Railways]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Short History of Canada
Author: Desmond MortonPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 155199142X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this book, Desmond Morton, one of Canada’s most noted and highly respected historians, shows how the choices we can make at the dawn of the 21st century have been shaped by history. Morton is keenly aware of the links connecting our present, our past, and our future, and in one compact and engrossing volume he pulls off the remarkable feat of bringing it all together – from the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans to the failure of the Charlottetown accord and Jean Chretien’s third term as prime minister. His acute observations on the Diefenbaker era, the effects of the post-war influx of immigrants, the flag debate, the baby boom, the Trudeau years and the constitutional crisis, the Quebec referendum, and the rise of the Canadian Alliance all provide an invaluable background to understanding the way Canada works today.
A Brief History of Canada
Author: Roger E. RiendeauPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Presents a concise history of Canada, from the time of early exploration by Europeans to the present day.
Brief History of the Canadian National Railways in B.C.
Author: Canadian National Railways. Mountain Region. B.C. AreaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The People's Railway
Author: Donald MacKayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Great Western Railway of Canada
Author: David R.P. GuayPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459732839
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A look back on the brief and spectacular history of Canada’s Great Western Railway. This book chronicles the genesis and all-too-brief existence of one of Canada’s greatest early railways, the Great Western Railway of Canada (1853–1882), a major precursor to the Canadian National Rail system. Today, the Great Western Railway of Canada is a little-known historic line, overlooked even by many railway aficionados. But it was truly a railway ahead of its time. It was a pioneer in combining land- and water-based transportation, including the introduction of river car-ferries and passenger/freight steamships on the Great Lakes. It made waves of a different kind with its acquisition of the American-owned railway linking Detroit, Grand Haven, and Milwaukee. And its mammoth workshops were industrial monuments in Hamilton and London, Ontario, where inventive geniuses laboured to supply the booming rail trade of southern Ontario. It was the ancestor of some of the most heavily used rail lines in all of Canada. This book has been written to do justice to a railway that truly must be considered one of Canada’s trailblazing lines. Amply illustrated with previously unpublished photographs and a thorough historical record of the Great Western Railway’s locomotives and rolling stock, it offers a ride back in time into the vanishing history of early Ontario railroading.