Van Horne's Road

by Omer Lavallée

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William Cornelius Van Horne and the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. For armchair railroaders, historians, students - anyone fascinated by Canadian history - Van Horne's Road is a pictorial history of the railroad that forged a nation. Widely hailed as one of the most informative and important histories of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Railway, this vibrant new edition of Van Horne's Road has been reformatted and redesigned show more for a new generation of readers as a permanent tribute to the people responsible for the building of what has been called Canada's National Highway. show less

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Canonical title
Van Horne's Road
People/Characters
William Cornelius Van Horne

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Genres
Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
385.0971Society, government, & cultureCommerce, communications & transportation regulationsRailroad transportationSubdivisionsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyNorth AmericaCanada
LCC
HE2810 .C2 .L35Social sciencesTransportation and communicationsTransportation and communicationsRailroads. Rapid transit systems
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Languages
English
Media
Paper
ISBNs
3