There are surprisingly few secondary books dealing with Canadian railway history available for the general reader. The admirable treatise by Dr S. J. M'Lean, 'National Highways Overland,' in vol. x of _Canada and Its Provinces_, is much the best. Trout, _The Railways of Canada_ (1871), and the article by T. C. Keefer in _Eighty Years' Progress of British North America_ (1863), are useful for the early period, but are scarce. There is, however, a wealth of first-hand material--pamphlets, travellers' notes, company reports, Hansard debates, committee inquiries, and departmental returns. The largest collections of such material are to be found in the Parliamentary Library, Ottawa, the Library of the Department of Railways and Canals, the Toronto Public Library, and the Library of Queen's University, Kingston. For progress from year to year since 1901, see Castell Hopkins, _The Canadian Annual Review_, vol. i _et seq_. See also, in this Series, _The Day of Sir John Macdonald_ and _The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier_. {249} INDEX Alberta, railways in, 184, 216, 224; grants in aid, 192, 241. Allan, Sir Hugh, and the Pacific Scandal, 122-7. America, North, ways of access into, 29-30; and transport development, 30-5. Angus, R. B., and the Canadian Pacific Syndicate, 135, 136 n., 137, 151. Ashburton Treaty, the, 57-8. Blair, Andrew G., minister of Railways, 208. Blake, Edward, his opposition to the C.P.R. contract, 143-5, 157 N. Borden, Sir Robert, and the Canadian Northern, 191, 192. Brassey, Betts, Peto and Jackson, railway contractors in the Maritime Provinces, 66-67, 69, 73, 75; in Canada, 70, 72-6, 79, 80, 81 and note, 83. British Columbia, its terms of union with Canada, 115, 116, 128, 130; railway grants in aid, 192, 241. Broun, Sir Richard, his railway, 58. Buchanan, Isaac, promotes the Great Western, 47. Canada, before the advent of the railway, 12-14, 19-26, 109-113; development of water transport, 14-16, 33-5; of land transport, 16-19; her railway policy, 27-30, 49-55, 64, 69-71, 169-72, 176, 190, 191, 209, 211, 233-9, 241-3; railway building, 36-49, 84-5, 93, 98, 182-3; the Grand Trunk, 71-74, 81-2, 83, 88-90, 94, 187; the Intercolonial, 106-8; the C.P.R., 116, 122-9, 139-50, 158-9, 164-5, 176-7, 224; a 'boom' period, 85, 181-2, 196; the Canadian Northern, 190-1, 192, 194; a period of depression, 197-8, 202; the Grand Trunk Pacific, 206-11, 213-15; railway interrelations with United States, 231, 232-3, 241; government roads, 108, 233-239; Canada's position in the railway world, 240-1. See Railways. Canada Central Railway, 100, 128, 173. Canada North-West Land Company, 153. Canada Southern Railway, 40, 98-9, 104. Canadian Northern Railway, 92; building of, 183, 185-9, 230, 232; financing of, 190-5; other enterprises, 195, 211.