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Philosophy of railroads and other essays

Author : T.C. Keefer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590733
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of railroads and other essays written by T.C. Keefer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1972-12-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.C. Keefer's Philosophy of Railroads is one of the greatest hymns of praise to the age of iron and steel ever written in North America. Better than any other document it shows why railroads were seen as the arteries of the Canadian nation during the nineteenth century, This volume brings four of Keefer's works together with a brilliant introduction by H.V. Nelles. It includes Philosophy of Railroads, originally published in 1849; a lecture in which Keefer outlines his hopes for the development of the Montreal region and in passing reveals the philosophical foundation upon which they rest; the Sequel to the Philosophy of Railroads, a fascinating illustration of the problems the first engineers faced in raising their trade from a scramble for money and prestige into a legitimate profession; and a final essay on railways written in the early 1860s – expressing Keefer's disillusionment at the failure of railways to fulfill their promise. At one level these essays say a great deal about railroads and about Canadian society in the nineteenth century; at another they represent a cycle, from enthusiastic idealism to realism, in one man's thought; and at yet another they introduce us to the historian's problem of establishing relationships between ideas and the material conditions within which they appear.

Philosophy of Railroads and Other Essays

Author : Thomas C. Keefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802061577
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Railroads and Other Essays written by Thomas C. Keefer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cover"--"Contents"--"Introduction" -- "Part 1: Philosophy of Railroads" -- "Philosophy of Railroads" -- "Conclusion of Philosophie des chemins de fer" -- "Part 2: Montreal" -- "A lecture on Montreal from the pamphlet, Montreal and the Ottawa" -- "Part 3: A sequel to the Philosophy of Railroads" -- "Extracts from lectures on civil engineering" -- "Petition to the legislative assembly" -- "The Honourable John Ross before the legislative council" -- "Letters of explanation in the Montreal Herald" -- "Editorial from the Toronto Leader" -- "Keefer's reply in the Globe" -- "Editorial from the Leader" -- "Part 4: Railways" -- "A chapter on Railways from 'Travel and Transportation'

Philosophy of Railroads, and Other Essays

Author : Thomas C. Keefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Railroads, and Other Essays written by Thomas C. Keefer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations

Author : Andrew Dow
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801882923
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations written by Andrew Dow and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of original sources both British and American—Acts of Parliament, poetry, songs, journals, advertisements, obituaries, novels, histories, plays, films, office memoranda, speeches, newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, and private documents and conversations. Here Andrew Dow records remarkable, memorable words—from the well-known to the abstruse, from the commonplace to the vital. The selected quotations are arranged by subject matter and searchable by speaker, subject, and keyword. Dow's Dictionary will inform and captivate railway enthusiasts along with readers interested in railway architecture, engineering, geography, and history.

Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services

Author : David O. Whitten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 156750972X
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services written by David O. Whitten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.

Great Western Railway of Canada

Author : David R.P. Guay
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459732847
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Great Western Railway of Canada written by David R.P. Guay and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one of the great railways that opened up Canada, and played a huge role in the development of Hamilton, the site of its head offices. Yet the rise and fall of the Great Western Railway has been almost lost to memory. David R.P. Guay provides the authoritative book of a great Canadian railway that history forgot.

Inside the Law

Author : Carol Wilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442651288
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Law written by Carol Wilton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching back nearly two hundred years, and many are over a century old. Yet the history of law firms in Canada has remained largely unknown. This collection of essays, Volume VII in the Osgoode Society's series of Essays in the History of Canadian Law, is the first focused study of a variety of law firms and how they have evolved over a century and a half, from the golden age of the sole practitioner in the pre-industrial era to the recent rise of the mega-firm. The volume as a whole is an exploration of the impact of economic and social change on law-firm culture and organization. The introduction by Carol Wilton provides a chronological overview of Canadian law-firm evolution and emphasizes the distinctiveness of Canadian law-firm history.

Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation

Author : Martin Brook Taylor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802068262
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation written by Martin Brook Taylor and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

Shaping the Urban Landscape

Author : Gilbert Arthur Stelter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0886290023
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Urban Landscape written by Gilbert Arthur Stelter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1982 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays focusing on the process of city-building in Canada. The authors weigh the relative broad social, economic and technological trends as they attempt to explain the shaping of this urban landscape.

Railway Game

Author : J. Lukasiewicz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0771099053
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Railway Game written by J. Lukasiewicz and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1976 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canadian Railways 2-Book Bundle

Author : David R.P. Guay
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145973680X
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Railways 2-Book Bundle written by David R.P. Guay and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation history buffs rejoice. Ride the rails and the waves in this special two-book collection on the great railways from Canada’s past. Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways The first detailed account of the rise and fall of the maritime branches of two of Canada’s great transcontinental railways of the early twentieth century: the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern. Great Western Railway of Canada It was one of the great railways that opened up Canada, and played a huge role in the development of Hamilton, the site of its head offices. Yet the rise and fall of the Great Western Railway has been almost lost to memory. David R.P. Guay provides the authoritative book of a great Canadian railway that history forgot.

Macdonald at 200

Author : Patrice Dutil
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459724488
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Macdonald at 200 written by Patrice Dutil and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are fifteen fresh interpretations of Canada's founding Prime Minister, published for the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth in 1815. Well researched and crisply written by recognized scholars and specialists, the collection throws new light on Macdonald's formative role in our nation.

Thomas Mackay

Author : Alastair Sweeny
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776636812
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Mackay written by Alastair Sweeny and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laird of Rideau Hall explores the life and times of Thomas Mackay, the chief founder of Bytown/Ottawa. Born and raised in Perth, Scotland, Mackay and his family emigrated to Montreal in 1817. Partnering with fellow mason John Redpath, he built the locks of the first Lachine Canal, did military construction work at Fort Lennox and St. Helen’s Island, and supplied stone for Montreal’s Notre Dame Basilica. Engaged by Colonel By of the Royal Engineers to build the Ottawa and Hartwell Locks of the Rideau Canal, Mackay used his profits to found the village of New Edinburgh and build a mill complex at Rideau Falls, as well as the residence his daughter named Rideau Hall. With his hefty canal profits—paid in Spanish silver pieces of eight—Mackay was a major financier of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway, and chief promoter of Ottawa as the capital of Canada. He served as Colonel of the Russell and Carleton militias, was MLA for Russell for seven years, and a member of the Legislative Council of Canada for fifteen. After Mackay’s death in 1855, his son-in-law and estate manager Thomas Keefer sold Rideau Hall to the government to serve as a residence for Canada’s Governor General. Keefer also developed a tract of land owned by the estate into the village of Rockcliffe Park, today home to over 70 diplomatic residences.

A Concise History of Canada

Author : Margaret Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498469
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Canada written by Margaret Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Margaret Conrad's lucid account of the diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state of Canada.

The John A. Macdonald Retrospective 2-Book Bundle

Author : Ged Martin
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459730291
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The John A. Macdonald Retrospective 2-Book Bundle written by Ged Martin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special 2-book bundle contains a number of perspectives on a man who was arguably Canada’s most famous political leader, a figure of legendary proportions in the history of Canada’s birth and development. Ged Martin’s biography tells Macdonald’s story. Shocked by Canada’s 1837 rebellions, Macdonald sought to build alliances and avoid future conflicts. Thanks to financial worries and an alcohol problem, he almost quit politics in 1864. The challenge of building Confederation harnessed his skills, and in 1867 he became the country’s first prime minister. He drove the Dominion’s westward expansion, rapidly incorporating the Prairies and British Columbia before a railway contract scandal unseated him in 1873. He conquered his drinking problem and rebuilt the Conservative Party to regain power in 1878. The centrepiece of his protectionist National Policy was the transcontinental railway, but a western uprising in 1885 was followed by the controversial execution of rebel leader Louis Riel. Although dominant nationally, this popular hero had many flaws. Macdonald at 200 presents fifteen fresh interpretations of Canada’s founding prime minister, published for the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth in 1815. Crisply written by recognized scholars and specialists, the collection throws new light on Macdonald’s formative role in shaping government, promoting women’s rights, managing the nascent economy, supervising westward expansion, overseeing relations with Native peoples, and dealing with Fenian terrorism. A special section deals with how Macdonald has (or has not) been remembered by historians as well as the general public. The book concludes with an afterword by prominent Macdonald biographer Richard Gwyn. Macdonald emerges as a man of full dimensions — an historical figure that is surprisingly relevant to our own times. Includes John A. Macdonald Macdonald at 200

End of the Line

Author : Don McIver
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459702239
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book End of the Line written by Don McIver and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-02-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty people died in 1857, leaving behind their stories and the tales of those involved. In 1857, the Desjardins Canal bridge collapsed under a Toronto-to-Hamilton train, creating one of the worst railway wrecks in North American history. Sixty lives, including that of the main contractor, were lost. The story of how the Great Western Railway was conceived, where it was located, and how it was constructed is replete with high irony covering political intrigue, commercial skullduggery, and bold entrepreneurship. Woven into the tragic events of that cold March evening are a cross-section of pre-Confederation Canadians whose lives contrasted sharply with the dour stereotypical view of pioneering Canada. End of the Line portrays the personalities of these global travellers, burgeoning industrialists, and simple railway servants – all connected by the common thread of catastrophe. Particular attention is focused on the little-known life of Samuel Zimmerman – the irrepressible contractor who died in the accident. Captured throughout is the spirit of economic venture infecting the mood of the continent.

This Side of Heaven

Author : Norman N. Feltes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802044860
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book This Side of Heaven written by Norman N. Feltes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivated a group of men in southwestern Ontario to enter the Donnelly farmhouse in 1880 and bludgeon the family to death? Feltes' rigorously Marxist approach situates the murders in a compelling web of economic, social, and geographical structures.