Canadian Transport Sourcebook

Steel of Empire by John Murray Gibbon

The book Steel of Empire by John Murray Gibbon, published in 1935, is a book about the Canadian Pacific Railway. Currently only a portion of the book is reproduced here.

Contents:

• Chapter 2: French Fur Traders
• Chapter 3: Chinese Influence on Europe
• Chapter 6: Waterways
• Chapter 10: Piercing Mountain Barriers
• Chapter 11: New Blood from Scotland
• Chapter 32: E. W. Beatty Steps Up
• Chapter 33: The Railway as Citizen

Images:

Birds-Eye View of Manitoba

Bruce Price, Architect Associated With Early Hotel Construction

Canadian Pacific Train Leaving Windsor Station, Montreal

C. P. R. Construction on the Prairies

Empress Hotel, Victoria, B. C.

Empress of Britain

Father Lacombe, From the Statue at Mission Park, St. Albert

Grant Hall, a Notable Vice-President

Great Lakes Steamship at Port McNicoll

Mrs. Hayter Reed, a Genius in Hotel Decoration

Rock Drillers on the Selkirk Tunnel Under Rogers Pass

Sir Edward Beatty, G.B.E. With Alexander Gillie and Lott Britton

Tom Wilson, Guide and Outfitter for Major Rogers

The Coming Feast, From a Cartoon By Arch Dale

A La Claire Fontaine

Astoria

Captain Robert Gray's Ship, The Lady Washington Attacked By Hostile Indians Off Vancouver Island

Cartoon on the Unification Question By Arch Dale

Charles II in Beaver Hat

Flower Pagoda at Canton

Governor Simpson on an Inspection Trip of Hudson's Bay Company's Fort

Henri IV

Hongs at Canton, 1840

John Jacob Astor Driving in a Sleigh From Lachine To Montreal

Kootenai Fort

Launch Of the North West America, 1786, at Nootka

Malbrough

Native Village in Hawaii

Pagoda Anchorage, Whampoa, Canton River, 1840

Pierre De La Verendrye

Rafts And Durham Boat on the St Lawrence

Robert Cavelier De La Salle

Samuel De Champlain

Sea Otter

Simon Fraser Shooting the Rapids of the Fraser River

Sir Edward Beatty, G.B.E.

Tartar Wall at Peking

Windsor Station, Montreal

Working a Canoe at a Rapid

Captain James Cook

Catherine of Braganza

Dutch East Indiaman of the Seventeenth Century

Japanese Map of the World Brought To Europe in 1693 By Engelbrecht Kaempfer

Nikou

Queen Anne Who Set The Fashion of Chinoiseries in England

Fort Douglas

John McLoughlin

Lord Selkirk

Quebec In 1730

Sir George Simpson

American Soldiers Marching Through Yokohama, 1853

Canot De MaîTre

Chinese Children Playing at a Moon Gate

Commodore Perry

First Steam Driven Railway Train in Canada July 21 1835

Fort York (Toronto) in 1841

Governor Douglas

Insignia of the Hudson's Bay Company

Japanese Drawing of an Englishman—1853

Japanese Drawing of a Russian—1853

John Galt Coloniser Novelist Poet

One of the One Hundred Views of Fujiyama

Sir John A. Macdonald, G.C.B.

Stagecoach at Fort York (Toronto)—1840

Arrival of Selkirk Settlers

Hudson Bay Mail in Winter

Lord Selkirk's Grant of Assiniboia

Types of Colonists, Selkirk Settlement

York Boat

Antler Creek

Buffalo Trails

Captain John Palliser

Citadel of Quebec in 1840

Colonel R. E. Moody

Far-Away-Cough (Blackfoot Indian)

Fort Vancouver

Henry Beatty

John A. Macdonald in 1842

Montreal in 1840

Mountain Roads, Cariboo

Night-Gipsy (Blood Indian(

Old Time Indian Canoes At Sault Ste Marie

Queen Victoria in 1863

Sir Allan MacNab

Sir A. T. Galt

Sir James Hector

S.S. Beaver, First Steamer on the Pacific Off Fort Victoria—1846

Vermillion Paint Pot

Vermillion Pass

Blaze on Tree Left By George Simpson's Guide

Brig Jean, First Vessel of the Allan Line

Cariboo Road in the Thompson River Canyon

Cariboo Road on the Fraser River Canyon

Crossing a Ford

Map of 1857 Showing Network of Railroads in the United States Below Canada

R. B. Angus in 1877

Sandford Fleming, Circ. 1860

Simpson Pass

Sir Hugh Allan

S.S. Sarmatian

Surveyor's Packing Pony

The Anson Northrup, First Stern-Wheeler on the Red River

The Last of England

Upper Fort Garry

Walter Moberly, Discoverer of the Eagle Pass

Boat Encampment, Big Bend, Columbia River

Colonists Embarking At Liverpool For Canada—1870

Colonists For Manitoba—1870

Homathco Canyon, Bute Inlet

The Fathers of Confederation

Yale, Head of Navigation on the Fraser River

Colonel Garnet Wolseley in 1870

D'Arcy McGee

Donald A. Smith in 1871, Afterwards Lord Strathcona

George Brown

Half-Breed and Oxcart

Letter From Sir John A. Macdonald on the Pacific Railway—1872

Louis Riel in 1870

Sir Charles Tupper

Sir Georges Etienne Cartier

Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

S.S. International at St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Man

British Columbia in a Pet

First Locomotive on the Canadian Pacific Railway

Fort Macleod Built For the Northwest Mounted Police 1874

James J. Hill

Lake Shebaunaning, Dawson Road

Norman W. Kittson

Pacific Railway Falconry

Portage At Kakabecka Falls Red River Expedition

Red River Expedition At Sault Ste. Marie

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

Sailing Ships on Burrard Inlet

Stagecoach on Cariboo Trail

Station "Northcote" on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad—1881

Wasn'T That a Dainty Dish to Set Before a King?

Winnipeg in 1872