TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Footnote anchors are denoted by [number],and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book.
The spacing between initial letters of railway names has been removed,for example any instances of C. P. R. have been changed to C.P.R. forconsistency.
The cover image was created by the transcriberand is placed in the public domain.
Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.
Trains of Recollection
Trains of Recollection
Drawn from
Fifty Years of Railway Service
in Scotland and Canada, and told to Arthur Hawkes
BY
D. B. HANNA
First President of the Canadian National Railways
TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF
CANADA LTD., AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE
MCMXXIV
Copyright, Canada, 1924.
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED.
PRINTED IN CANADA
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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 ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |