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Built for War: Canada’s Intercolonial Railway by Jay Underwood HARD Cover
Built for War: Canadas Intercolonial Railway by Jay Underwood
Built for War: Canadas Intercolonial Railway
Jay Underwood
Hard Cover
246 Pages
Copyright 2005
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction viii
Chapter 1 page 1
The Impending Threat
Chapter 2 page 28
Robinson's Report
Chapter 3 page 53
Of Unions and War
Chapter 4 page 86
Battle of the Routes
Chapter 5 page 111
Coming of Age
Chapter 6 page 129
The Shining Hour
Appendix One: Major Robinson's Report page 165
Appendix Two: Off to War page 216
Appendix Three: A Letter Home page 227
Appendix Four: Military Travel 1914-1918 page 229
Appendix Five: Special Trains 1914-1918 page 229
Appendix Six: A Home-grown Hero page 230
Appendix Seven: Movement of Troops on Government Railways page 232
Appendix Eight: The Explosion's Railway Toll page 235
Appendix Nine: Maine Boundary Controversy 1782-1842 page 240
Bibliography page 241
Internet Sources page 244
Index page 245
The American invasion of British North America in 1812-1814 had been repulsed largely by British soldiers, but the Americans had erred in launching their attack during the good weather. Winter would have been their ally.
For the British colonists, winter was the enemy. Almost totally reliant upon the Mother Country for its defence, everyone from the man on the rough streets to the Governor-General knew that an American invasion in the winter could not be easily stopped.
With the fortress at Quebec blocked by ice, and the road from Halifax through New Brunswick made impassable by deep snow, Britain could not send soldiers quickly enough to help repulse a winter invasion and, with Imperial commitments growing elsewhere, could not afford to station troops in Central Canada for indefinite periods.
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