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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 316

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house-boat. These craft, however, differmaterially from the historic Mississippi boats, the behaviourof which provoked President Lincoln to remark that theyhad to stop every time they blew the whistle, as there wasnot enough steam for operating both machinery and syrenat the same moment, for they… … A TREACHEROUS WATERWAY 271 flood rushes along here and there at a speed of about25 miles an hour. The Skeena River is one of the most capricious, erratic,and treacherous waterways among those flowing into thePacific Ocean along the North American coast. Apartfrom its fiendish velocity, which in…

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