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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 256

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personal requirements strapped to our backs, yetslowly and with great effort, for the ground was litteredwith windfall in all directions. We spoke but little, forwhen on the trail under such conditions all attention has tobe focussed upon one object—the path immediately ahead. Suddenly I turned… … Side Hill Excavation along the Skeena River Owing 10 ihe steep character of the river bank heavy earthwork was re<iuisite to provide a pathfor ihe line, ihe soil as removed was shot into ihe water.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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