Chapter I: Front Matter

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Trains of Recollection

Trains of Recollection

Drawn from

Fifty Years of Railway Service
in Scotland and Canada, and told to Arthur Hawkes

BY
D. B. HANNA
First President of the Canadian National Railways

TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF
CANADA LTD., AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE
MCMXXIV

COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1924.
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED.

PRINTED IN CANADA

_To the multitude of Fellow-Workers who, during twenty-six years, loyally served the Canadian Northern and Canadian National Railways, this book is appreciatively inscribed._

THE CHAPTERS

Page

Introduction ix

I. Suggesting a typically Presbyterian
background of Scottish migration
to Canada 1

II. Sketching early years of service at
country and city stations near the
Clyde 17

III. Recalling Van Horne and the Canadian
Pacific challenge to the
Grand Trunk 35

IV. Reviewing vanishing practices, including
ticket scalping and fast
freight lines 48

V. Portraying scantily the lives of a
poor prairie line and a beloved
prairie town 61

VI. Remembering when farming in the
West was misunderstood, and land
could not be sold 80

VII. Telling how Manitoba struggled
through an era of expansion and
the war of Fort Whyte 97

VIII. Recording the first encounter of Mackenzie
and Mann, with mules for a
stake 115

IX. Beginning the story of the Canadian
Northern as a pioneer line with a
staff of thirteen 132

X. Describing meetings of a traffic manager
with Sioux Indians and sudden
millionaires 148

XI. Indicating several considerations
which made Toronto the centre of
a Transcontinental system 168

XII. Offering explanations why luxurious
ease does not distinguish living on
a private car 190

XIII. Recounting midwinter episodes of
location and operation in empty
country 207

XIV. Reciting events, the Great War being
chief, which destroyed the Canadian
Northern 227

XV. Speaking some truth about the difficulty
of operating a railway for
the nation 250

XVI. Narrating several occurrences which
made huge Canadian National deficits
inevitable 269

XVII. Shedding sidelights on unities of
Canadian railway management
during the War 296

Appendix A 315

Appendix B 332

THE PORTRAITS

D. B. Hanna Frontispiece

Facing Page
Sir Donald Mann 68

Sir William Mackenzie 68

Sir William Van Horne 164

E. W. Beatty 164

A. J. Mitchell 244

R. M. Horne-Payne 244