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• Title:Canada's great highway : from the first stake to the last spike. By J.H.E. Secretan, C.E. ; with 16 illustrations from photographs.
  
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• Author/Creator:Secretan, J. H. E. (James Henry Edward), 1852-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : John Lane, [1924]
  

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  • Location:ASRS STORAGE (IKB) (Order via Document Delivery)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HE2810.C2 S4
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HE2810.C2 S4
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
  
• Description:252 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 19 cm
  
• Summary:"True narrative of my own personal adventures and experiences as an engineer from the driving of the first stake in 1871 to the driving of the last spike in 1885."--Introduction.
  
• Additional formats:Also available online.
  
• Contents:Early days
  Organization
  British Columbia
  Bute Inlet
  Home via Panama
  The Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1881
  Sir William Van Horne
  Indians
  The birth of Brandon
  Selecting a station
  The Englishman
  Dick Turpin
  The murder
  The Sheriff
  Major Rogers
  Construction
  The lost dog and the bear hunt
  Recollections of a Rebellion [1885, Riel Rebellion]
  Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  A Prospector's funeral on the banks of the Yukon River
  The last spike