Excerpt from The Making of a Great Canadian Railway: The Story of the Search for and Discovery of the Route, and the Construction of the Nearly Completed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway From the Atlantic to the Pacific With Some Account of the Hardships and Stirring Adventures of Its Constructors in Unexplored
This is the day of great railway-building achievements, and among these the Grand Trunk Pacific, stretching across the breadth of Canada, stands preeminent. Only scanty information has been communicated to the world at large concerning its inception and construction, as those participating in its realisation are busily occupied on the task.
This volume is intended to give "a peep behind the scenes" of this railway in the moulding stage. The greater part of the year 1910 I spent on the spot, fraternising with the engineers, teamsters, graders, and others engaged upon the work. I travelled from point to point by whatever vehicle was available, from pack-horse to a Pullman express, from canoe to river steamer, from team waggon to construction locomotive. When all other means of transportation failed I walked. In this way I covered not only the ground where work is completed and in active progress, but pushed across the gap of 840 miles then remaining to be built through the Rocky Mountains, and the North-western wilderness, by the only means possible - pack-horse and canoe.
This book makes no pretence to appeal to the engineer, who is concerned essentially with the purely technical side of the work.
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