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Introduction

This book is not intended to be a serious history of the evolution of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which has so often been written by more fluent fountain pens than mine. Nor is it a collection of dry statistics, extracted from official blue books, with a series of quotations from other people's diaries, such as I have often read; but rather is it meant to be a true narrative of my own personal adventures and experiences as an engineer from the driving of the first stake in 1871 to the driving of the last spike in 1885. And, with all its faults, it has at least the audacity to be authentic.

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