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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 186

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edat the point where the Saskatchewan describes a hugeelbow. Those who first settled on the spot thought thatperhaps some day they would build up a town of some im-portance, but the settlers numbered only 113 all told in1903. The odd thirteen might be construed as ominous tothe superstitious, but… … A DISMAL OUTLOOK 159 perhaps been more magical. In 1901 the census stood at2626 ; in 1910 it was bordering upon 30,000. When I crossed the extreme western corner of theDominion, making the north-west passage over theroute which the steel highway will follow, I came upon asmall clearing in the…

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