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The making of a great Canadian railway ; the story of the search for and discovery of the route, and the construction of the nearly completed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with some account of the hardships and stirring adventures of its constructors in unexplored country (1912)

Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880- · Toronto, Musson Book Co. · leaf 170

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c grain elevator was taken in hand. Forthis purpose 1600 acres were acquired bounded on threesides by water—the Kaministiquia River, the MissionRiver, and Lake Superior respectively. By this meansno less than 7 miles of water frontage were secured, therebybringing the huge freighters trading on… … Et; o jia «8 E a fa ^ A GIGANTIC GRAIN ELEVATOR 145 Grand Trunk Pacific, the farmers who had settled inadvance of the iron horse succeeded in shipping to Winnipegapproximately 1,000,000 bushels of grain, the wholeof which was handled as conditions permitted by theconstruction trains. In the…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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