The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881 (75 page)

In a work of this complexity, errors are almost inevitable. For these and for the various judgements, I am alone responsible.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Other Books by This Author

Maps

Dedication

Cast of Characters

From Sea to Sea

CHAPTER ONE

1. An act of “insane recklessness”

2. The dreamers

3. “Canada is a corpse”

4. The struggle for the North West

5. The land beyond the lakes

6. Ocean to Ocean

7. The ordeal of the Dawson Route

CHAPTER TWO

1. Poor Waddington

2. Sir Hugh Allan’s shopping spree

3. The downfall of Cartier

4. George McMullen’s blackmail

CHAPTER THREE

1. Lucius Huntington’s moment in history

2. Scandal!

3. The memorable August 13

4. The least satisfactory Royal Commission

5. Battle stations

6. Macdonald versus Blake

CHAPTER FOUR

1. “Hurra! The jolly C.P.S.!”

2. The bitter tea of Walter Moberly

3. Ordeal in the mountains

4. “That old devil” Marcus Smith

CHAPTER FIVE

1. Lord Carnarvon intervenes

2. “The horrid B.C. business”

3. The Battle of the Routes

CHAPTER SIX

1. The first locomotive

2. Adam Oliver’s favourite game

3. The stonemason’s friends

4. “Mean, treacherous coward!”

CHAPTER SEVEN

1. Resurrection

2. “Get rid of Fleming”

3. The Strange Case of Contract Forty-two

4. Bogs without bottom

5. Sodom-on-the-Lake

CHAPTER EIGHT

1. Jim Hill’s Folly

2. “Donald Smith is ready to take hold”

3. Enter George Stephen

4. A railway at bargain rates

5. The Syndicate is born

CHAPTER NINE

1. “Capitalists of undoubted means”

2. Success!

3. The Contract

4. The Great Debate begins

5. The “avenging fury”

6. Macdonald versus Blake again

7. The dawn of the new Canada

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Other Books by This Author

Maps

Dedication

Cast of Characters

From Sea to Sea

CHAPTER ONE

1. An act of “insane recklessness”

2. The dreamers

3. “Canada is a corpse”

4. The struggle for the North West

5. The land beyond the lakes

6. Ocean to Ocean

7. The ordeal of the Dawson Route

CHAPTER TWO

1. Poor Waddington

2. Sir Hugh Allan’s shopping spree

3. The downfall of Cartier

4. George McMullen’s blackmail

CHAPTER THREE

1. Lucius Huntington’s moment in history

2. Scandal!

3. The memorable August 13

4. The least satisfactory Royal Commission

5. Battle stations

6. Macdonald versus Blake

CHAPTER FOUR

1. “Hurra! The jolly C.P.S.!”

2. The bitter tea of Walter Moberly

3. Ordeal in the mountains

4. “That old devil” Marcus Smith

CHAPTER FIVE

1. Lord Carnarvon intervenes

2. “The horrid B.C. business”

3. The Battle of the Routes

CHAPTER SIX

1. The first locomotive

2. Adam Oliver’s favourite game

3. The stonemason’s friends

4. “Mean, treacherous coward!”

CHAPTER SEVEN

1. Resurrection

2. “Get rid of Fleming”

3. The Strange Case of Contract Forty-two

4. Bogs without bottom

5. Sodom-on-the-Lake

CHAPTER EIGHT

1. Jim Hill’s Folly

2. “Donald Smith is ready to take hold”

3. Enter George Stephen

4. A railway at bargain rates

5. The Syndicate is born

CHAPTER NINE

1. “Capitalists of undoubted means”

2. Success!

3. The Contract

4. The Great Debate begins

5. The “avenging fury”

6. Macdonald versus Blake again

7. The dawn of the new Canada

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

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