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Great Railway, The by Pierre Berton Abridged Soft Cover
Great Railway, The by Pierre Berton Soft Cover
The Great Railway
The Story that has sold over half a million books
Pierre Berton
Soft Cover
412 Pages abridged
Copyright 1974 Reprinted 1992
Contents
List of Maps vii
Preface to the Abridged Edition xi
The National Dream
From Sea to Sea 15
ONEThe Great Lone Land 18
TWOThe Pacific Scandal 44
THREEThe Pathfinders 81
FOURThe Noble Man 97
FIVEResurrection 129
SIXTwo Streaks of Rust 148
SEVENThe Great Debate 168
The Last Spike
ONE4 "The Syndicate Takes Over 195
TWOThe Great Manitoba Land Boom 220
THREEFive Hundred Miles of Steel 238
FOURHell's Bells Rogers Finds His Pass 264
FIVEOnderdonk's Lambs 288
SIXThe Promised Land 306
SEVENNot a Dollar to Spare 328
EIGHTMarching As to War 357
NINEThe Last Spike 381
Cast of Major Characters 401
Index 403
Canada before the CPR 14
Prairie Trails and Explorations 30
Fleming's Route (Ocean to Ocean), 1871 38-39
The Dawson Route 40-41
Walter Moberly's Country 87
The Battle of the Routes 106-7
Fleming's Survey, 1877 114-15
Government Contracts, CPR 122
The St. Paul and Pacific Railway, 1873 150
The Change of Route: 1881 200-201
The Prairie Line: 1881 206
The Land Boom: 1881-82 231
Regina: 1882-83 257
The Selkirks before the CPR 267
The Far West before the CPR 270
The Rockies before the CPR 273
The Onderdonk Contracts 290
The Prairie Line: To 1883 308
The Line in the East 334
The Kicking Horse Pass: 1884 336
Burrard Inlet: 1884-85 345
The Rogers Pass: 1884-85 360
The Saskatchewan Rebellion: 1885 365
The CPR in Ontario to 1885 373
Gaps in the Line: March, 1885 376
The CPR in Quebec to 1885 385
Back of the book
In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old, determined that it would build the world's longest and costliest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. The decision, bold to the point of recklessness, was to change the lives of every man, woman, and child in Canada and to alter the future and the shape of the nation. In The National Dream (1970) and its Governor-General's Award-winning sequel, The I ast Spike (1971), Pierre Berton reconstructed the incredible decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe - contractors, politicians, financiers, surveyors, workingmen, journalists, and entrepreneurs - fought for the railway, or against it. Together the books tell a story of how some two thousand miles of steel were flung across a continent in just five years - a story of adventure, suspense, and tragedy.
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