FROM SUMMIT TO SEA: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF RAILROADS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALBERTA

by Buck, George H

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Book Description

(Fifth House, Calgary, 1997), Ist edition.. 202 pp, small 4to, HC in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w with photos, maps. "...begins with the pioneering efforts of the CPR to build a transcontinental link to the west coast, and the battles with time and politics, elements and terrai. n. Then comes the arrival of the lines aspiring to be competing transcontinentals and the individuals who made these corporations come alive with gusto. Smaller, but extremely important concerns, such as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the. E d m o nton Dunvegan and British Columbia, the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, and the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway are also included. Fascinating people and events are featured, such as Royal visits, the tragedies of the Titanic and the Wo. r ld W ar a nd their profound effects on railroad development, the deadly competition between two giants, CPR and CNR in the form of Edward Beatty and Henry Thornton respectively, and the dire consequences caused by the Great Depression, when the . gr owt h a nd imp ortance of railroads changed forever..." Gift inscription on free front endpaper, slight wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edgewear. Dust jacket has minor edgewear/wrinkling. VG/VG+.

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