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Author : Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Van Horne Letter Book: June 22nd, 1885-Aug. 25th, 1885 written by Canadian Pacific Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Friesen
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 1772840599
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Honourable John Norquay written by Gerald Friesen and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the Premier from Red River John Norquay, orphan and prodigy, was a leader among the Scots Cree peoples of western Canada. Born in the Red River Settlement, he farmed, hunted, traded, and taught school before becoming a legislator, cabinet minister, and, from 1878 to 1887, premier of Manitoba. Once described as Louis Riel’s alter ego, he skirmished with prime minister John A. Macdonald, clashed with railway baron George Stephen, and endured racist taunts while championing the interests of the Prairie West in battles with investment bankers, Ottawa politicians, and the CPR. His contributions to the development of Canada’s federal system and his dealings with issues of race and racism deserve attention today. Recounted here by Canadian historian Gerald Friesen, Norquay’s life story ignites contemporary conversations around the nature of empire and Canada’s own imperial past. Drawing extensively on recently opened letters and financial papers that offer new insights into his business, family, and political life, Friesen reveals Norquay to be a thoughtful statesman and generous patriarch. This masterful biography of the Premier from Red River sheds welcome light on a neglected historical figure and a tumultuous time for Canada and Manitoba.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 038567354X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Last Spike written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly half the time stipulated in the contract. Pierre Berton recreates the adventures that were part of this vast undertaking: the railway on the brink of bankruptcy, with one hour between it and ruin; the extraordinary land boom of Winnipeg in 1881–1882; and the epic tale of how William Van Horne rushed 3,000 soldiers over a half-finished railway to quell the Riel Rebellion. Dominating the whole saga are the men who made it all possible — a host of astonishing characters: Van Horne, the powerhouse behind the vision of a transcontinental railroad; Rogers, the eccentric surveyor; Onderdonk, the cool New Yorker; Stephen, the most emotional of businessmen; Father Lacombe, the black-robed voyageur; Sam Steele, of the North West Mounted Police; Gabriel Dumont, the Prince of the Prairies; more than 7,000 Chinese workers, toiling and dying in the canyons of the Fraser Valley; and many more — land sharks, construction geniuses, politicians, and entrepreneurs — all of whom played a role in the founding of the new Canada west of Ontario.
Author : Donna McDonald
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459714954
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Lord Strathcona written by Donna McDonald and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Smith, known to most Canadians as Lord Strathcona, was an adventurer who made his fortune building railroads. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company at age eighteen and went on to build the first railway to open the Canadian Northwest to settlement. As his crowning achievement, he drove the last spike for the nation-building Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1896, Smith became Canada's High Commissioner in London and was soon elevated to the peerage. He became a generous benefactor to Canadian institutions. This eminently readable biography brings to light new information, including details about Strathcona's personal life and his scandalous marriage.
Author : British Columbia. Bureau of Provincial Information
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The Year Book of British Columbia and Manual of Provincial Information ... written by British Columbia. Bureau of Provincial Information and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Edward Gosnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Year Book of British Columbia and Manual of Provincial Information written by R. Edward Gosnell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.A. den Otter
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888641113
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Civilizing the West written by A.A. den Otter and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1986 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Galt and his son Elliott worked tirelessly to promote resource exploitation on Canada's vast western plains. Their coal mines in Alberta gave birth to the city of Lethbridge.
Author : Dennis Reid
Publisher : Art Gallery of Ontario = Musée des beaux-arts dle l'Ontario
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Lucius R. O'Brien written by Dennis Reid and published by Art Gallery of Ontario = Musée des beaux-arts dle l'Ontario. This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A.J. McDonald
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077484227X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Making Vancouver written by Robert A.J. McDonald and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Vancouver explores social relationships in Vancouver from 1863 to 1913. It considers how urbanization structured social boundaries among Burrard Inlet's increasingly large population and is premised on the belief that, in studying social boundaries, historians must abandon single category forms of analysis and build into their research strategies the capacity to explore complexity. Robert McDonald thus traces the relationship between the two forms of identify, class and status, for the whole of Vancouver society. The book starts with the years when settlement on Burrard Inlet centred around two lumber mills, explores periods of elite dominance of city institutions and then of growing social and political conflict following the arrival of the railway, examines the heightening of class tensions at the turn of the century, charts economic growth during the boom years before the war, and concludes with three chapters on the tripartite status hierarchy that emerged in concert with that of a class dichotomy. It reveals a western city that was neither egalitarian nor closed to opportunity. Vancouver up to the pre-war crash of 1913 was open and dynamic. The rapidity of growth, easy access to resources, narrow industrial base, and influence of ethnicity and race softened the thrust towards class division inherent in capitalism. Far more powerful in directing social relations was the quest for status, creating a social structure that was no less hierarchical than that predicted by class theory but much more fluid. The social boundary that separated the working class from others is revealed as a division that for much of the pre-war boom period divided Vancouver society more fundamentally than the boundary separating labour from capital.
Author : Ramsay Cook
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780802039989
Total Pages : 1330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by Ramsay Cook and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1966 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet version contains all the information in the 14 volume print and CD-ROM versions; fully searchable by keyword or by browsing the name index.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : New York : A.A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Impossible Railway written by Pierre Berton and published by New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 1972 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James E. Fell, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0870819682
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Ores to Metals written by James E. Fell, Jr. and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive treatment of the smelting industry of Colorado, originally published in 1979, is now back in print with a new preface by the author. Packed with fascinating statistics and mining data, Ores to Metals details the people, technologies, and business decisions that have shaped the smelting industry in the Rockies. Although mining holds more of the glamour for those in and interested in the minerals industry, smelters have continuously played a critical role in the industry’s evolution since their introduction in Colorado in the 1860s. At that time, miners desperately needed new technology to recover gold and silver from ores resistant to milling. Beginning as small independent enterprises, progressing to larger integrated firms working in urban centers, and finally following a trend toward mergers, the entire industry was absorbed into one large holding company—the American Smelting and Refining Company. Over time, fortunes were won and lost, business success was converted to political success, and advances were made in science and metallurgy. Drawing on archival material, Fell expertly presents the triumphs and troubles of the entrepreneurs who built one of the great industries of the West.
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Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elsie Overbaugh 1889- Hallenbeck
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014588456
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Our Van Horne Kindred written by Elsie Overbaugh 1889- Hallenbeck and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Omer Lavallée
Publisher : Railfare Books (Fifth House)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Van Horne's Road written by Omer Lavallée and published by Railfare Books (Fifth House). This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Cornelius Van Horne and the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. For armchair railroaders, historians, students - anyone fascinated by Canadian history - Van Horne's Road is a pictorial history of the railroad that forged a nation. Widely hailed as one of the most informative and important histories of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Railway, this vibrant new edition of Van Horne's Road has been reformatted and redesigned for a new generation of readers as a permanent tribute to the people responsible for the building of what has been called Canada's National Highway. Containing more than 450 photographs, illustrations, and historic documents - supplemented by 40 maps and diagrams designed by the author - the book presents a coast-to-coast recreation of what indisputably stands as one of the most important and historic undertakings in the history of this nation.
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Total Pages : 2716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Who's who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
