topic:"Railways" found 42 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Mathieu, Sarah-Jane

Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press

Call Number: 08.1 M42n

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Author: Mathieu, Sarah-Jane

Responsibility: Sarah-Jane Mathieu

Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press

Physical Description: xv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: History; History-Canada; Canada; Racism; Travel; Transportation; Labour; Railways

Abstract: North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there. (From publisher's website)

Contents: Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood.

ISBN: 9780807871669

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 08.1 M42n

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871669/north-of-the-color-line/

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Northern rail lines across the divide

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Budd, Ralph

Call Number: 08.5 B85 Pam

Author: Budd, Ralph

Physical Description: p. 222-224 : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canadian National Railways; Canadian Pacific Railway; Great Northern Railway; Palliser Expedition

Notes: In Civil Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4 (April 1940). Cover page photograph of Canadian Pacific train emerging from Spiral Tunnel at Mount Stephen

Accession Number: 492

Call Number: 08.5 B85 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Overland by the Yellowhead

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1974

Author: MacGregor, James G

Publisher: Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books

Call Number: 08.3 Ye3m

Author: MacGregor, James G

Publisher: Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books

Published Date: 1974

Physical Description: 270p. : ill., ports., map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alberta Coal Branch; Canadian National Railways; Jasper National Park

Accession Number: 7500

Call Number: 08.3 Ye3m

Collection: Archives Library

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Rails over the mountains : exploring the railway heritage of Canada's western mountains

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2016

Author: Brown, Ron

Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn

Call Number: 08.3 B78r

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Author: Brown, Ron

Responsibility: Ron Brown

Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: 156 pages : illustrations

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Railways; History; History of Alberta; History-Canada; Rocky Mountains; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels

Abstract: Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations added to the allure. The challenges of conquering the mountains resulted in some of Canada’s most ingenious feats of engineering, such as spiral tunnels and soaring trestles (one of which was featured in The Amazing Race Canada). Relive the days of rail on a steam train, the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, or one of VIA Rail’s mountain journeys. Outdoor enthusiasts can follow the abandoned roadbeds of Canada’s more spectacular rail trails, like the legendary Kettle Valley Railway. Also included are some of Canada’s most extensive railway museums, which have helped to bring this vanished era back to life. (From publisher's website)

Contents: The rails arrive -- Conquering the mountains : the tunnels and bridges -- The faces of the railways : the heritage railway stations -- Life on the line : the railway towns -- The dream castles : western Canada's railway hotels -- Railway structures : a forgotten heritage -- Celebrating the heritage : the railway museums -- The rail trails -- All aboard.

ISBN: 9781459733596

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 08.3 B78r

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

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https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459733596-rails-over-the-mountains

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Railways in southern Alberta

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1973

Author: Bowman, R.F.P.

Publisher: Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society

Call Number: 08.2 B67r Pam

Author: Bowman, R.F.P.

Responsibility: R.F.P. Bowman

Publisher: Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society

Published Date: 1973

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alberta; Railways; Railroads - Alberta; History; History of Alberta; Lethbridge

Abstract: Pertains to the history of the southern Alberta railways, written as a labor of love from Lethbridge local, R.F.P. Bowman. The intent of the publication was to record the history of the early local railway, in an effort to preserve the history before it was to be forgotten. Author R.F.P. Bowman, worked to commemorate the events that were able to elevate the area of Lethbridge, Alberta from its infancy into a state of maturity.

Contents: Chapter I: The beginnings (pg. 7); Chapter II: The Galts (pg. 9); Chapter III: Enter Canadian Pacific (pg. 13); Chapter IV: The Canadian Pacific extends (pg. 24); Chapter V: Other efforts (pg. 27); Chapter VI: Passenger trains in the past tense (pg. 31); Chapter VII: Freight - the railway's main diet (pg. 34); Chapter VIII: The Lethbridge division (pg. 38)