Van Hornes Road

Author : Omer Lavallée
Publisher : Railfare Books (Fifth House)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Horne's Road written by Omer Lavallée and published by Railfare Books (Fifth House). This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Cornelius Van Horne and the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. For armchair railroaders, historians, students - anyone fascinated by Canadian history - Van Horne's Road is a pictorial history of the railroad that forged a nation. Widely hailed as one of the most informative and important histories of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Railway, this vibrant new edition of Van Horne's Road has been reformatted and redesigned for a new generation of readers as a permanent tribute to the people responsible for the building of what has been called Canada's National Highway. Containing more than 450 photographs, illustrations, and historic documents - supplemented by 40 maps and diagrams designed by the author - the book presents a coast-to-coast recreation of what indisputably stands as one of the most important and historic undertakings in the history of this nation.

Author : Omer Lavallée
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Horne's Road written by Omer Lavallée and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Omer Lavallée
Publisher : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9780919130227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Horne's Road written by Omer Lavallée and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction and early operation of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Cushman St Upgrading, Van Horn Road to Gaffney Road, Fairbanks written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Valerie Knowles
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705236
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William C. Van Horne written by Valerie Knowles and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William C. Van Horne was one of North America's most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Ralway. The railroading general pushed through construction of the CPR's transcontinental line and then went on to become the company's president. During his time with the CPR, Van Horne developed a telegraph service, launched the Empress line of Pacific steamships in 1891, and founded CP Hotels. He capped his career by opening up Cuba's interior with a railway. A man of prodigious energy and many talents, he also became Canada's foremost art collector and one of the country's leading financiers. For all of his amazing accomplishments, Van Horne was knighted in 1894. When he died church bells throughout the length and breadth of Cuba tolled to mark his passing, and when his funeral train made its way across Canada, all traffic on the CPR system was suspended for five minutes.

Author : Walter Vaughan
Publisher : New York : The Century Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne written by Walter Vaughan and published by New York : The Century Company. This book was released on 1920 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gavin Van Horn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022644158X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of Coyote written by Gavin Van Horn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn’t most nature writers. He lives and works not in some perfectly remote cabin in the woods but in a city—a big city. And that city has offered him something even more valuable than solitude: a window onto the surprising attractiveness of cities to animals. What was once in his mind essentially a nature-free blank slate turns out to actually be a bustling place where millions of wild things roam. He came to realize that our own paths are crisscrossed by the tracks and flyways of endangered black-crowned night herons, Cooper’s hawks, brown bats, coyotes, opossums, white-tailed deer, and many others who thread their lives ably through our own. With The Way of Coyote, Gavin Van Horn reveals the stupendous diversity of species that can flourish in urban landscapes like Chicago. That isn’t to say city living is without its challenges. Chicago has been altered dramatically over a relatively short timespan—its soils covered by concrete, its wetlands drained and refilled, its river diverted and made to flow in the opposite direction. The stories in The Way of Coyote occasionally lament lost abundance, but they also point toward incredible adaptability and resilience, such as that displayed by beavers plying the waters of human-constructed canals or peregrine falcons raising their young atop towering skyscrapers. Van Horn populates his stories with a remarkable range of urban wildlife and probes the philosophical and religious dimensions of what it means to coexist, drawing frequently from the wisdom of three unconventional guides—wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold, Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu, and the North American trickster figure Coyote. Ultimately, Van Horn sees vast potential for a more vibrant collective of ecological citizens as we take our cues from landscapes past and present. Part urban nature travelogue, part philosophical reflection on the role wildlife can play in waking us to a shared sense of place and fate, The Way of Coyote is a deeply personal journey that questions how we might best reconcile our own needs with the needs of other creatures in our shared urban habitats.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Bradford Marshall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Leveling in Texas 1896 to 1915, Inclusive written by Robert Bradford Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John George Staack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Leveling in Texas written by John George Staack and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: