THE CHAPTERS
D. B. Hanna
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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
Appendix A
315
Appendix B
332
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