Amazing stories great railways of the Canadian West building the dream that shaped our nation
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Pole, Graeme
- Publisher
- Canmore AB : Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd.
- Call Number
- 02.6 P76a
- 02.6 P76a Copy 2
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- Author
- Pole, Graeme
- Publisher
- Canmore AB : Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 144 pages, 21.5cm
- Series
- True Canadian Amazing Stories
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Transportation
- Abstract
- True historical stories related to the building of the railways: the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern .
- Contents
- The pipedream of Millington Henry Synge -- Ocean to ocean -- The world according to Walter J. Moberly -- Two streaks of rust -- The bishop, the general, and the impossible -- One railroad too many -- Paper,rocks, and steel -- Railhead, roadhouse, and ruin -- A spike as good as any other -- The road of a thousand wonders
- Notes
- Includes images from the Whyte museum collection
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 1554390621
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- 2024.48
- Call Number
- 02.6 P76a
- 02.6 P76a Copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Ben Gadd Fonds
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