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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 376

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furious pace with the movements of the tides,this velocity varying from 12 to 14 miles an hour, thealternating rise and fall of the ocean at this point duringthe highest tides being about 26 feet. Though the channel is not very wide, it has called for theerection of a bridge nearly 1000 feet in… … A BIG UNDERTAKING 311 The racing of the waters was found to be so furious at thehighest spring tides that divers could not descend, and con-sequently work had to be carried out in short periods be-tween the ebb and flow when the water was at its lowestand quietest. This represented a total…

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company · Railroad engineering · Pacific railroads

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