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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 240

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y over 300 miles away, andthe little patches of hay and garden produce were asisolated as if on the planet Mars. Yet this country is proving another surprise for therailway. The dormant timber wealth alone representsmany millions sterling, and for the most part it has escapedthe ravages of the… … FERTILITY OF THE LAND 205 rolls from side to side in the most bewildering manner,doubling and redoubling upon itself to an amazing degree.More than once in our paddle down-stream in the dug-outwe were called upon to make a huge curve nine miles inlength to make barely a miles advance in an air…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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