Canadian Transport Sourcebook

Construction of the C.P.R.

Images:

C. P. R. Construction on the Prairies

A Typical C.P.R. Construction Store and Office

Tote Road Along Lake Into Sudbury

Driving the Last Spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, November 7, 1885

Father Lacombe and the Blackfeet

British Columbia in a Pet

Sailing Ship at Port Moody, With Rails For the C.P.R.

Text:

• When the Steel Went Through by P. Turner Bone
• "Pioneering on the C.P.R." from Pioneering on the C.P.R. by Florence R. Howey
• "Chapter III: The Building of the Canadian Pacific Railway" from Romance of Modern Locomotion by Archibald Williams
• "The Railway Commission" (Manitoba Free Press, September 17, 1880, page 1).
• "The Syndicate Business" (Manitoba Free Press, September 17, 1880, page 2).