The Canadian Pacific Railway
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alternative: The Canadian Pacific : the new highway to the East across the mountains, prairies & rivers of Canada
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
issued: 2019-07-04
issued: 1887
description: "Cover title. Includes description of C.P.R. route through B.C. Also: [Facsimile reproduction. Montreal, The Author, 1887. Montreal, Railfare Enterprises Limited, 1971] 45[2] p. illus. 23 cm. (A Railfare reprint). Cover title. Also: [Montreal, The Author, 1888] 50 p. illus., map. 26 cm. Cover title. Also: with title The Canadian Pacific, the new highway to the Orient, across the mountains, prairies and rivers of Canada. [Montreal? The Author, 1889?] 48 p. illus., maps. 26 cm. Cover title. Slightly revised. Also: [1890?] Also: [1891?] 27 cm. Slightly revised. Also: [1892?] Slightly revised. Also: [1893?] Also: [Montreal, Canadian Railroad Historical Association, 196-] 22 cm. Facsim. reproduction, probably of 1893 ed., reset and with 2 illus. changed. Publication date from Meyer. Xerox copy seen. Also: [Montreal? The Author, 1894?] Also: [1895?] illus., maps (1 col.) Also: [1896?] No 1897 ed. verified or located. Also: with title The new highway to the Orient, across the mountains, prairies and rivers of Canada. Montreal, The Author, 1898. 48 p. illus., maps. 27 cm. Cover title: The Canadian Pacific, the new highway to the Orient, across the mountains, prairies and rivers of Canada. Also: 1899. Also: 1900. Cf. Bureau of Railway Economics. No copy located. Also:1901. 23 cm. Also: 1902. 63 p. illus., maps (incl. 1 fold.) 19 cm. Slightly revised. Also: 1903. 57 p. Slightly revised. Also: 1904. 59 p. Fold.map missing. Slightly revised. Also: 1905. 60 p. No 1906 ed. verified or located. Also: with title The highway to the Orient, across Canada to Japan, China, Australasia and the sunny isles of the Pacific. Montreal, The Author [1907] 60 p. illus. 19 cm. Cover missing. Revised. No 1908 ed. verified or located. Also: [1909] 60 p. illus., maps (incl. 1 fold.) 19 cm." -- Edwards, M. H., Lort, J. C. R., & Carmichael, W. J. (1975). A bibliography of British Columbia: Years of growth, 1900-1950. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 54.
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extent: 45 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, photographs, advertisements ; 27 cm
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note: ITHE (ANADIAh Pacific THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. MONTREAL ------ 1887. if CANADIAN PACIFIC LAKE STEAMER : OWEN SOUND AND PORT ARTHUR. /5T, 01 T mm ■Mi Phe Canadian f acific Railway. Wq> RAILWAY from the Atlantic to the Pacific, all the way on British soil, was long the dream of a few in Canada. This dream of the few became, in time, the hope of the many, and on the confederation of the British — .) North American provinces, in 1867, its realization was found to be a political necessity. Then the Government of the new Dominion of Canada set about the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, a work of such vast proportions that the richest empire of Europe might well have hesitated before entering upon it. Much of the country through which the Railway must be built was unexplored. Towards the east, all about Lake Superior, and beyond to the Red river, was a vast rocky region, where nature in her younger days had run riot, and where deep lakes and mighty'rivers in every direction opposed the progress of the engineer. Beyond the Red river for a thousand miles stretched a great plain, known only to the wild Indian and the fur trader; then came the mountains, range after range, in close succession, and all unexplored. Through all this, for a-distance of nearly three thousand miles, the railway surveys had first to be made. These consumed much time and money ;■ people became impatient and found fault and. doubted. There were differences of opinion, and these differences became questions of domestic politics dividing parties, and it was not until 1875, that the work of construction commenced in earnest. But the machinery of government is ill adapted, at best, to the carrying on of such an enterprise, and in this case it was blocked or retarded by political jealousies and party strife. Governments changed and delays occurred, until finally, in 1880, it was decided almost by common consent to surrender the work to a private company. The explorations and surveys for the ra…
note: Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15092798
has type: Books
identifier: FC73 .C363 1887
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0379774
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Montreal : [Canadian Pacific Railway Company]
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. FC73 .C363 1887
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Canada--Description and travel
type: Text