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People's Railway, The a History of Canadian National By Donald MacKay Soft Cover
The Peoples Railway a History of Canadian National By Donald MacKay
Soft Cover Writing on first page
Copyright 1992
328 Pages
CONTENTS
Preface & Acknowledgments VII
Introduction I
CHAPTER 1 Boom and Bust 5
CHAPTER 2 Public Property 22
CHAPTER 3 Sir Henry Thornton 33
CHAPTER 4 Riding the White Elephant 52
CHAPTER 5 Knights of the Iron Horse 70
CHAPTER 6 "A Colossus Fallen" 87
CHAPTER 7 Hard Times 106
CHAPTER 8 CN at War 127
CHAPTER 9 The Perils of Peacetime 146
CHAPTER 10 Railway People 160
CHAPTER 11 Farewell to Steam 173
CHAPTER 12 Pragmatism and Public Enterprise 196
CHAPTER 13 The Railway Problem 210
CHAPTER 14 Hazards of the Game 221
CHAPTER 15 Pursuit of Passengers 238
CHAPTER 16 A Future for Freight 252
CHAPTER 17 A New Deal 263
CHAPTER 18 In Pursuit of Profit 279
CHAPTER 19 The 1980s - An Epilogue 296
APPENDICES
A Brief Chronology 304
Some Heralds & Logos 307
Prime Ministers & Railway Ministers 308
Graphs 309
Notes 311
Bibliography 317
Index 319
MAPS
CN Lines in Western and Eastern Canada, 1923 44-45
CN Lines in the Montreal Area 78
CN and CPR Lines in Western and Eastern Canada, 1923-1950 178-179
CN Lines in Western and Eastern Canada, 1980 294-295
The railway hysteria that swept this country in the nineteenth century left Canada with more railway miles per capita than any other country in the world. But when times turned bad, many of these railways began to fail. The Borden government stepped in, combining bankrupt private-enterprise lines and unprofitable patronage-ridden government lines into the country's first Crown corporation: Canadian National.
This fascinating history describes the company's battle against inherited debt and its constant struggle to make a profit while also acting as an agent for national development. We meet Sir Henry Thornton, the charismatic American brought in by Mackenzie King to pit the railway against the glamorous, privately owned CPR; and the bluff, outspoken Scot Donald Gordon, who was parachuted in by Ottawa after World War II to remake the aging steam railway into a modern corporation. Firsthand accounts of life on the line by locomotive drivers, conductors and other workers bring an added dimension to this detailed and absorbing book.
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