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Awakening continent : the life of Lord Mount Stephen
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6360
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1965
- Author
- Gilbert, Heather
- Publisher
- Aberdeen (Scotland) : Aberdeen University Press
- Call Number
- 08.5 St4g
- Author
- Gilbert, Heather
- Publisher
- Aberdeen (Scotland) : Aberdeen University Press
- Published Date
- 1965
- Physical Description
- 1v. : ports
- Notes
- Index
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 08.5 St4g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
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- Archives Library
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I'll take the train
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6312
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1966
- Author
- Liddell, Ken
- Publisher
- Saskatoon : Modern Press
- Call Number
- 08.5 L61
- Author
- Liddell, Ken
- Publisher
- Saskatoon : Modern Press
- Published Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- 196p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 562
- Call Number
- 08.5 L61
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Pacific railways and nationalism in the Canadian-American Northwest, 1845-1873
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6297
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1968
- c1939
- Author
- Irwin, Leonard Bertram
- Publisher
- New York : Greenwood
- Call Number
- 08.5 Ir9
- Author
- Irwin, Leonard Bertram
- Publisher
- New York : Greenwood
- Published Date
- 1968
- c1939
- Physical Description
- xii, 246p
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Originally published as a thesis, University of Pennsylvania
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 1000
- Call Number
- 08.5 Ir9
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The pathfinders: Parts I and II : Tom Wilson
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8202
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1964
- Author
- Wilson, Tom
- Call Number
- 08.3 W69 Pam
- Author
- Wilson, Tom
- Published Date
- 1964
- Physical Description
- 2v. : ill., port., maps
- Notes
- From Canadian Pacific Spanner, vol.2, no.7, vol.2, no.8
- Accession Number
- 1229
- 3187
- Call Number
- 08.3 W69 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1968
- Author
- Tanner, Thomas W
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National and Historic Parks Branch
- Call Number
- 08.5 T15 Pam
- Author
- Tanner, Thomas W
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National and Historic Parks Branch
- Published Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 1v. (various pagings)
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Call Number
- 08.5 T15 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The soo line's famous trains to Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26213
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Author
- Gainer, Terry
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 90 pages ; 8 cm
- Subjects
- CP Rail
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Railway
- Railway routes
- Transportation
- History
- Abstract
- The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron. The “little railway that could” grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the “Soo Mountaineer” was launched, becoming the most famous and longest “two-nation” train journey in North America. -- From publisher
- Contents
- Part 1: A brief history of the soo line -- 1. In the beginning -- 2. The birth of the railway -- 3. What a tangled web we weave -- 4. Westward ho through great northern's backyard -- 5. Wisconsin central, the final piece of the puzzle -- 6. Setting the stage, Canadian pacific steamship company and Canadian pacific hotels and resorts -- Part 2: Famous trains of the soo -- 7. The Atlantic limited -- 8. The soo Pacific express -- 9. The Manitoba express, the Winnipeg express, the winnipeger -- 10. The soo-Spokane-Portland train deluxe -- 11. The mountaineer -- 12. The mystique of the mountaineer -- 13. The depression and the dirty thirties -- 14. My mountaineer -- 15. 1962, triumph and tragedy -- 16. The end of an era.
- ISBN
- 9781771606714
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Copy 1 signed by author
- Call Number
- 08.5 G12t
- 08.5 G12t reference copy
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Steel rails and scarlet tunics
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8041
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1965
- Author
- Kerr, F.M
- Call Number
- 08.4 K46 Pam
- Author
- Kerr, F.M
- Published Date
- 1965
- Physical Description
- p.20-26
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- From RCMP Quarterly, vol.30, no.4
- Call Number
- 08.4 K46 Pam
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- Archives Library
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William Pearce, father of Alberta irrigation ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5760
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1966
- Author
- Mitchner, E. Alyn
- Call Number
- 03.6 P31m
- Author
- Mitchner, E. Alyn
- Published Date
- 1966
- Physical Description
- vi, 154p. : port., maps
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Water
- Notes
- Thesis (M.A.), University of Alberta, 1966
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 1499
- Call Number
- 03.6 P31m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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