New World Dreams
Canadian Pacific Railway and the Golden Northwest
$116.48
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
21 February 2024
Summary
Best known for its monumental achievements in transportation technology, Canadian Pacific Railway (or “CP”) was instrumental in constructing the concept—and the reality—of the country we now call Canada. In addition to building the railroad that connected the country from coast to coast, CP was also highly effective at selling the idea of a vast and rich land of opportunity and triggering a massive wave of immigration to what was dubbed the “Golden Northwest” (later the provinces of Manitoba,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781772034554 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 177203455X |
| Author: | David Laurence Jones |
| Publisher: | Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd |
| Imprint: | Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 21 February 2024 |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 215mm |
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David Laurence Jones
David Laurence Jones is the former manager of internal communications at Canadian Pacific Railway. A history graduate from Concordia University, he worked for fourteen years in the railway’s corporate archives, researching and collecting stories and anecdotes about the CPR’s rich heritage.
He is the author of:
- Railway Nation: Tales of Canadian Pacific—The World’s Greatest Travel System
- The Railway Beat
- Tales of the CPR
- See This World Before the Next
- Famous Name Trains
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