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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada / Stephen R. Bown.
In the late 19th century, an idea emerged to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railway in the world, but it came at a terrible price. Stephen 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385698726
- Physical Description: 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Doubleday Canada, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Canadian Pacific Railway Company > History > 19th century. Railroads > Canada > Design and construction > History > 19th century. Railroads > Canada > History > 19th century. Canada > History > 1867-1914. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Salt Spring Island Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Spring Island Public Library | 385.097 BOW (Text) | 33123009859902 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Reshelving | - |
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.
