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Introduction |
ix |
| I. |
Suggesting a typically Presbyterian background of Scottish migration to Canada |
1 |
| II. |
Sketching early years of service at country and city stations near the Clyde |
17 |
| III. |
Recalling Van Horne and the Canadian Pacific challenge to the Grand Trunk |
35 |
| IV. |
Reviewing vanishing practices, including ticket scalping and fast freight lines |
48 |
| V. |
Portraying scantily the lives of a poor prairie line and a beloved prairie town |
61 |
| VI. |
Remembering when farming in the West was misunderstood, and land could not be sold |
80 |
| VII. |
Telling how Manitoba struggled through an era of expansion and the war of Fort Whyte |
97 |
| VIII. |
Recording the first encounter of Mackenzie and Mann, with mules for a stake |
115 |
| IX. |
Beginning the story of the Canadian Northern as a pioneer line with a staff of thirteen |
132 |
| X. |
Describing meetings of a traffic manager with Sioux Indians and sudden millionaires |
148 |
| XI. |
Indicating several considerations which made Toronto the centre of a Transcontinental system |
168 |
| XII. |
Offering explanations why luxurious ease does not distinguish living on a private car |
190 |
| XIII. |
Recounting midwinter episodes of location and operation in empty country |
207 |
| XIV. |
Reciting events, the Great War being chief, which destroyed the Canadian Northern |
227 |
| XV. |
Speaking some truth about the difficulty of operating a railway for the nation |
250 |
| XVI. |
Narrating several occurrences which made huge Canadian National deficits inevitable |
269 |
| XVII. |
Shedding sidelights on unities of Canadian railway management during the War |
296 |
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Appendix A |
315 |
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Appendix B |
332 |