Chapter I: Front Matter

[Transcriber's note: This book has varying page headers. Those headers have been collected at the start of each chapter as an introductory paragraph.]

[Frontispiece: 'The surveyor, often an explorer as well, striking out into the wilderness in search of mountain pass or lower grade.' From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys]

THE

RAILWAY BUILDERS

A Chronicle of Overland Highways

BY

OSCAR D. SKELTON

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1916

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

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CONTENTS

Page

I. THE COMING OF THE RAILWAY . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. EARLY TRAVEL IN CANADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
III. THE CALL FOR THE RAILWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
IV. THE CANADIAN BEGINNINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
V. THE GRAND TRUNK ERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
VI. THE INTERCOLONIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
VII. THE CANADIAN PACIFIC--BEGINNINGS . . . . . . . . 109
VIII. BUILDING THE CANADIAN PACIFIC . . . . . . . . . 131
IX. THE ERA OF AMALGAMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
X. THE CANADIAN NORTHERN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
XI. THE EXPANSION OF THE GRAND TRUNK . . . . . . . . 196
XII. SUNDRY DEVELOPMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
XIII. SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

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ILLUSTRATIONS

'THE SURVEYOR, OFTEN AN EXPLORER AS WELL,
STRIKING OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS IN SEARCH
OF MOUNTAIN PASS OR LOWER GRADE' . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
From a colour drawing by C. W. Jefferys.

THE FIRST RAILWAY ENGINE IN CANADA, CHAMPLAIN AND ST LAWRENCE RAILROAD, 1837 . . . . . . _Facing page_ 38 From a print in the Château de Ramezay.

RAILROADS AND LOTTERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 48
An Early Canadian Prospectus.

SIR FRANCIS HINCKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 66
From a portrait in the Dominion Archives.

RAILWAYS OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1860 (Map) . . . " 92

SIR GEORGE SIMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 110
From a print in the John Ross Robertson Collection,
Toronto Public Library.

SIR SANDFORD FLEMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 114
From a photograph by Topley.

FLEMING ROUTE AND THE TRANS-CONTINENTALS (Map) . . . " 118

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RAILWAYS OF CANADA, 1880 (Map) . . . . . . . . . . . " 130

LORD STRATHCONA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 134
From a photograph by Lafayette, London.

LORD MOUNT STEPHEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 140
From a photograph by Wood and Henry, Dufftown.
By courtesy of Sir William Van Horne.

SIR WILLIAM CORNELIUS VAN HORNE . . . . . . . . . . " 148
From a photograph by Notman.

RAILWAYS OF CANADA, 1896 (Map) . . . . . . . . . . . " 180

CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY, 1914 (Map) . . . . . . . " 194

CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " 200
From a photograph by Notman.

GRAND TRUNK SYSTEM, 1914 (Map) . . . . . . . . . . . " 218

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, 1914 (Map) . . . . . . . . " 224

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, 1914 (Map) . . . . . . . . . " 230

RAILWAYS OF CANADA, 1914 (Map) . . . . . . . . . . . " 238

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