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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 62

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ng surveyorssaw the golden opportunity to win their spurs with thetransit and level in the consummation of this great under-taking. The adventure and romance incidental to workin an unknown country spurred them on. They wereenrolled and sent up-country ; but they met with hardshipsthey never… … 3 5 ^ u ^ ,- B S 5 = 5 2 * 2 >;;t3 o. =-c a5 DISHEARTENING CONDITIONS 55 contracts carrying them to the completion of the work,never reached their sphere of occupation at all, but turnedback when they realised what the character of the con-ditions were. Others, who reached their parties, refused…

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