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CPR West The Iron Road and the Making Of a Nation by Hugh Dempsey W/ DJ
The CPR West The Iron Road and the Making Of a Nation by Hugh Dempsey
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
333 pages
Copyright 1984
CONTENTS
Introduction
Hugh A. Dempsey7
1 A Choice between Evils
The Chinese and the Construction of the Canadian
Pacific Railway in British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy13
2 Letters from End of Track
T. D. Regehr37
3 The Fearsome Fire Wagons
Hugh A. Dempsey55
4 Partners and Opponents
The CPR and the Ranching Industry of the West
Sheilagh S. Jameson71
5 The CPR and the Urban West, 1881-1930
Max Foran89
6 It's All Lies They Tell You
Immigrants, Hosts and the CPR
David C. Jones107
7 Shaughnessy and Prairie Development, 1889-1914
John A. Eagle125
8 See This World Before the Next
Tourism and the CPR
E. J. Hart151
9 The Spiral and Connaught Tunnels
John S. Marsh171
10 Bondage of Steam
The CPR and Western Canadian Coal
A. A. den Otter191
11 John Hammond
Painter for the CPR
George F. G. Stanley209
12 The CPR and Western Petroleum, 1904-24
David H. Breen229
13 Steam Movies
Railroads and Moving Images
Sam Kula247
14 The Bow River Scheme
CPR's Irrigation Block
A. Mitchner259
15 Steel of Empire
Royal Tours and the CPR
Robert M. Stamp275
Notes291
Index327
INTRODUCTION
The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway is one of the epic chapters in Canada's history. Through the skill of its engineers tracks were laid through rugged mountain ranges and
across seemingly bottomless muskeg to bind British Columbia and the great northern plains to the rest of Canada. Although the CPR syndicate triggered the downfall of Macdonald's government in 1873, that same government won the praise of Canadians a dozen years later, when the last spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company played a major role in the exploration of western Canada. Its agents sought the best routes through the Rocky Mountains, examined potential ports along the west coast, and in the process gathered significant data about the land and its peoples. Men such as Walter J. Moberly, Marcus Smith and Charles Horetsky were pathfinders in the wilderness, whereas others like George M. Grant published books that aroused a general interest in and sense of the land the CPR aimed to exploit.
When the surveys were completed, the Canadian Pacific Railway embarked on actual construction of the line. Here, such men as John A. Macdonald, Sir Hugh Allan, Lord Strathcona and Chief Crowfoot came to the foreground. All had distinguished careers quite separate from their involvement with the CPR, but their roles in the railway development added drama anc colour both to their lives and to the railway's. Others, like the redoubtable William C. Van Home, were part of the road's own story.
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