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Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher : New York : The Century Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by New York : The Century Company. This book was released on 1920 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valerie Knowles
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459714601
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book From Telegrapher to Titan written by Valerie Knowles and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction , the 2005 University of British Columbia Award for Best Canadian Biography, and the Canadian Railroad Historical Association Award for Best Railway Book of the Year. William Van Horne was one of North America’s most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, he became a prominent railway figure in the United States before coming to Canada in 1881 to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Railway. Van Horne pushed through construction of the CPR’s transcontinental line and went on to become company president. He also became one of Canada’s foremost financiers and art collectors, capping his career by opening Cuba’s interior with a railway.
Author : WALTER. VAUGHAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033716601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (166 download)
Download or read book LIFE AND WORK OF SIR WILLIAM VAN HORNE written by WALTER. VAUGHAN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230295442
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIX PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS. PORTRAITS. FRIENDS. G. T. BLACKSTOCK'S APPRECIATION. A S has so often been stated in the preceding pages, Van Home was blessed with a rare phys JL JL ical endowment. He was tall and massively built, and carried himself with the native dignity of a courteous, high-bred gentleman. His head was of noble proportions; his eye clear and penetrating; his features refined, mobile, and expressive of his moods. In conversation his face was constantly lighted up with a merry twinkling smile. His laugh was hearty and jovial. At work with his secretary, dictating letters to the four corners of the globe, he seemed the embodiment of energy, blowing smoke like a factory as he sought in his mind for a word--the most precise--and winding up a letter with a sentence or a phrase like a shot from a cannon. In a business interview he faced his caller, straddling his chair, leaning his arms upon the back, and alternately puffing smoke and flicking the ash from his cigar upon the carpet. His attitude in repose was frequently one of the most rapt absorption. This he would maintain for several minutes as he stood, for instance, before one of his pictures. It conveyed the impression that he saw through and beyond the obvious features of the painting, and was apt to be disconcerting to a less enthusiastic companion. Equally disconcerting were the occasions on which he would apparently ignore a question and delay replying so long that when the answer came, the questioner had forgotten the subject of his enquiry and wondered what Van Horne was talking about. At Covenhoven when, with his two pet collies bounding after him, he took a guest for a walk, he would stop here and there and apparently lose himself for a long interval in...
Author : Valerie Knowles
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705236
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book William C. Van Horne written by Valerie Knowles and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William C. Van Horne was one of North America's most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Ralway. The railroading general pushed through construction of the CPR's transcontinental line and then went on to become the company's president. During his time with the CPR, Van Horne developed a telegraph service, launched the Empress line of Pacific steamships in 1891, and founded CP Hotels. He capped his career by opening up Cuba's interior with a railway. A man of prodigious energy and many talents, he also became Canada's foremost art collector and one of the country's leading financiers. For all of his amazing accomplishments, Van Horne was knighted in 1894. When he died church bells throughout the length and breadth of Cuba tolled to mark his passing, and when his funeral train made its way across Canada, all traffic on the CPR system was suspended for five minutes.
Author : Walter 1865-1922 Vaughan
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363811380
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book LIFE & WORK OF SIR WILLIAM VAN written by Walter 1865-1922 Vaughan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 430 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Stephen Mayles
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book William Van Horne written by Stephen Mayles and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1976 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Van Horne was born in Chelsea, Illinois and spent his childhood in Joliet. Later he worked for several railroads in Illinois before moving to Canada. In Canada Van Horne became the General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway which was to be extended into the new Canadian province of British Columbia. In 1888, Van Horne became president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He arranged for shipping to meet the Canadian railway lines and boosted tourism in Canada by developing hotels in major cities. One such hotel was the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City.
Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440034138
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Vaughan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne Much of this volume, then, is frankly based on Miss Hughes's material, and wherever it has been possible I have used and adapted her rough narrative. If, there fore, these pages be deemed to have any merit, a large share of it must be credited to Miss Hughes. For their demerits I am alone to blame. Per contra, any writer who has had to rely to a large extent on material selected by another will appreciate one of the difficulties under which this book has been written. I wished to include some account of Van Horne's im pressions of his earlier visits to England and the great art centres of Europe, but no records are available. A man who travels forty or fifty thousand miles ayear and enjoys unlimited franking privileges over cable and telegraph lines is not apt to devote much time to letter writing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Canadian national live stock records office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Canadian National Records for Sheep written by Canadian national live stock records office and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Herman Rau
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812236254
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad written by William Herman Rau and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reproduces almost 100 remarkably detailed and texturally rich photographs. Essays by noted historians John Stilgoe, Mary Panzer, and Kenneth Finkel place Rau and his work in the context of the history of American advertising and landscape photography.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Canadian National Record for Swine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Canadian Shorthorn Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
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Download or read book Canadian Shorthorn Herd Book written by Canadian Shorthorn Association and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Eggermont- Molenaar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981281940
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (819 download)
Download or read book The William Van Horne Collection written by Mary Eggermont- Molenaar and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WILLIAM VAN HORNE COLLECTION: A DUTCH TREAT The penciled scribbles of a Dutch connoisseur, 'can be a Rembrandt', 'not a Maes', on the catalogue of the 1933 exhibition of the Van Horne Collection triggered this book. Based on correspondence and other archival material, some of it translated from Dutch for the fi rst time, The William Van Horne Collection: A Dutch Treat, chronicles the build-up of this Gilded Age collection based in Montreal. Dutch dealers, some of ill-repute, and connoisseurs are the main focus. As a client, Van Horne's relationship with them was multi-layered, leading to the indirect involvement of this American/Canadian railway magnate in a few sordid aff airs that rocked the North-American art world and provoked a change in art dealing on the North-American continent in the early years of the 19th century. The closing chapter describes the impact of the Great War on the collection and includes a description of Van Horne's last days by the Dutch painter Willem Witsen. His painting of the Van Horne's daughter-in-law, Edith Van Horne-Molson, was the last addition to the Van Horne collection. Mary Eggermont-Molenaar is a Dutch author who lives and works in Calgary.
Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Grolier
ISBN 13 : 9780717221615
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)
Download or read book William Van Horne written by Christopher Moore and published by Grolier. This book was released on 1987 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools.
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.
Author : Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711423
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Abolitionist Sisterhood written by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism, the "antislavery females" included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing fundraising fairs, writing pamphlets and giftbooks, circulating petitions, even speaking before "promiscuous" audiences including men and women—the antislavery women energetically created a diverse and dynamic political culture. A lively exploration of this nineteenth-century reform movement, The Abolitionist Sisterhood includes chapters on the principal female antislavery societies, discussions of black women's political culture in the antebellum North, articles on the strategies and tactics the antislavery women devised, a pictorial essay presenting rare graphics from both sides of abolitionist debates, and a final chapter comparing the experiences of the American and British women who attended the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
