Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada Bown Stephen
Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada Bown Stephen Stephen R. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the…
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Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada Bown Stephen
Stephen R. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally gripping and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation.In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade.
But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable