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Bown, Stephen R.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- Canada -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Canada -- History -- 1867-1914.
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Bown, Stephen R.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- Canada -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Canada -- History -- 1867-1914.
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Dominion
: the
railway
and the
rise
of
Canada
/ Stephen R. Bown.
by
Bown, Stephen R.
Doubleday Canada, 2023.
Call #:
385.0971 B787d
Subjects
Canadian Pacific
Railway
Company -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads --
Canada
-- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century.
Railroads --
Canada
-- History -- 19th century.
Canada
-- History -- 1867-1914.
ISBN:
9780385698726 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Railway
and the
rise
of
Canada
Description:
400 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In 'The Company,' his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen R. Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of
Canada
's origins in the fur trade. With '
Dominion
' he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific
Railway
. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometres of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest
railway
in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. Stephen R. Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were moulding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern
Canada
's creation as an independent state."--Jacket.
Stephen R. Bown is the author of eleven books on the history of exploration, science and ideas, including the medical mystery of scurvy, the Treaty of Tordesillas and the lives of Captain George Vancouver and Roald Amundsen. He has been published in many English-speaking territories and translated into nine languages. He has won the BC Book Prize, the Alberta Book Award and the William Mills Prize for Polar Books. His previous book, The Company: The
Rise
and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire, was a national bestseller and winner of the 2021 National Business Book Award and the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize. Born in Ottawa, he now lives near Banff in the Canadian Rockies.
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