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Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways

Name: Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways
Author: Oscar D. Skelton

Oscar D. Skelton

Read by Scott Foster, Doug Sheppard and Maria Kasper · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The Coming of the Railway (12:22)
Early Travel in Canada (14:32)
The Call for the Railway (9:20)
The Canadian Beginnings (17:30)
The Grand Trunk Era, Part 1 (26:20)
The Grand Trunk Era, Part 2 (27:01)
The Intercolonial (20:18)
The Canadian Pacific -- Beginnings (32:59)
Building the Canadian Pacific, Part 1 (26:15)
Building the Canadian Pacific, Part 2 (27:01)
The Era of Amalgamation (16:00)
The Canadian Northern (21:10)
The Expansion of the Grand Trunk (25:33)
Sundry Developments (21:18)
Some General Questions (9:06)