The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland HighwaysSkelton, Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas)
History
The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways
Skelton, Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas)
Pacific railroads; Railroads -- Canada -- History
Canadian Pacific Railway, the great demand for, 114-17; the survey and
route, 117-20, 129, 160-1, 162-3; the Pacific Scandal, 120-7; the
syndicate, 130-42, 150-2; terms of building contract, 141-50, 172-173;
financing of, 139-42, 147-150, 152-9, 181, 227-8, 236; its
construction, 128, 159-68; development eastward, 173-175; further
expansion, 175-178, 223-6, 232; and other railways, 139-40, 173-6, 186,
203, 215, 225; the world's foremost transportation system, 220-1, 226-7.
Canadian Pacific Syndicate, the, 130-42, 150-2.
Capreol, F. C., his ingenious financing scheme, 48.
Caraquet Railway Company, 171 n.
Cartier, Sir George, 107; and the C.P.R. contract, 123, 124, 125 n.
Central Vermont Railway, 101, 122 n., 174, 204.
Chamberlin, Edson J., president of the Grand Trunk, 202, 215.
Champlain and St Lawrence Railway, 36-8, 39, 40, 49-50.
Chandler, E. B., 53; his railway mission, 63, 65-6.
Cox, George A., 143, 179.
Elgin, Lord, governor-general of Canada, 72.
England, the locomotive contest in, 1-5; her lead in railway
development, 7-10. See Great Britain.
European and North American Railway, 60-2, 64, 68-9, 102, 174.
Farley, Jesse P., and the Canadian Pacific Syndicate, 132, 137 n.
Fleming, Sir Sandford, 245, 246; and the Intercolonial, 56-7, 106-8,
117; and the C.P.R., 114, 117-20, 178.
Galt, Sir A. T., 172; his railway enterprises, 44, 45, 70, 71, 74-6,
77, 81 n., 84, 114, 246.
Gladstone, W. E., colonial secretary, 59.
Grand Trunk Railway, 38; building and financing of, 71-84, 87, 94, 95,
97, 99, 104-5, 122-3, 187, 232; and the C.P.R., 155, 174, 178-80; in
low water, 196-9; changes of administration and material, 200-2,
218-19; eastern activities, 203-5; westward expansion, 205-6, 208, 211,
214. See Grand Trunk Pacific.
Grand Trunk Pacific, 205; the demand for, 209; question of the route,
207-8, 210, 215-18; building and financing of, 208-9, 211-15, 217.
Grant, Rev. George M., 117.
Great Britain, her railway mileage in 1846, 38; her railway policy in
Canada, 54-5, 106; in the Maritime Provinces, 59, 60, 62-6, 73. See
England.
Great Northern Railway, its development in Canada, 137-138, 187, 228-32.
Great Western Railway, building of, 40, 41, 46-7, 54, 55, 69, 70, 77,
84, 86-7, 91, 94, 95, 97, 99, 104-5; acquired by the Grand Trunk, 179.
Guarantee Acts, to aid railway building, 55, 69, 71, 84, 86.
Gutelius, F. P., manager of the Intercolonial, 234.
Gzowski and Co., railway contractors, 77, 81 n.
Hays, Charles M., 246; president of the Grand Trunk, 200-1, 203-4, 206,
212, 215; drowned in the 'Titanic' disaster, 202.
Hill, James J., and the C.P. Syndicate, 133, 134, 136 n., 137 and note,
141, 151, 162; and the Great Northern, 138 n., 228-30.
Hincks, Sir Francis, 52, 53, 246; his railway policy, 53-4, 56, 69,
70-1, 72-3, 88; and railway enterprises, 65-6, 73-6, 122.
Holt, H. S., and the Canadian Northern, 184.
Holton, Luther, his railway enterprises, 70, 71, 74-6, 81 n., 84.
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