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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 312

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mpy in character, and littered withfloating debris brought down by the raging waters when inflood. Under these circumstances it was impossible to followthe contour of the shore without producing a line aboundingin sharp curves and twists, whereas the official stipulationsconcerning curvature were… … AVALANCHE AND LANDSLIDE 269 inasmuch as the line at Prince Rupert is barely 20 feetabove high-water mark. This was the outlook when the surveyor ventured intothe field with his transit and level, and the reconnaissanceonly served to emphasise the stern proportions of his enter-prise. Then the…

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