STEEL OF EMPIRE
Written by John Murray Gibbon
Published by Rich & Cowan Ltd.
in 1935
STEEL OF EMPIRE
Written by John Murray Gibbon.
Stock no. 1706736
1935.
Hardback.
Fair condition.
The Romantic History of the candian pacific, the northwest passage of Today. Colour and b/w plates and b/w illustrations to text. Spine split and frayed to sides. Joints strengthened with tape.
Front cover
Contents
- The Lure of Cathay
- French Fur Traders
- Chinese Influence on Europe
- Overland to the Pacific
- Astorian Adventure
- Waterways
- Canada in the Forties
- Opening of China and Japan
- Columbia and Fraser Rivers
- Piercing Mountain Barriers
- New Blood from Scotland
- Railways and Exploration
- Confederation
- Red River Expedition
- The First Pacific Railway
- Government Construction
- Macdonald Negotiates
- George Stephen at the Helm
- Hustle and Progress
- New Routh Through Mountains
- Finance and Mountain Camps
- Near-Ruin and Rebellion
- The Last Spike
- First Through Transcontinental
- Pacific Service and Prairies
- Van Horne Rampant
- Orient and Crow's Nest Pass
- Lord Strathcona, Imperialist
- Shaughnessy's Regime
- Extensions and Colonisation
- C.P.R. and the War
- E.W. Beatty Steps Up
- The Railway as Citizen
- Bibliography
- Index