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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 298

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SURVEYOK^i MoXi.NG CaMI A.MJNw THE MOUNTAIN^ The rivers and lakes constitute the easiest highways for travel in the unknown west,where roads do not exist and horses are unavailable. Huge rafts are formed of deadtrees lashed or pinned together with wooden pegs, which the men load with theirclothes,… … Station Men at Work The line is pegged out in units of loo feet, each of which is called a station. The workmen,either co-operatively or individually, undertake to complete a section upon a kind of pieceworksystem. They live a dogs life, work from fourteen to eighteen hours a day, but earn from ^3…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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