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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.
_To the multitude of Fellow-Workers who, during twenty-six years, loyally served the Canadian Northern and Canadian National Railways, this book is appreciatively inscribed._
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