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In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old -- it's population well below the 4 million mark -- determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision -- bold to the point of recklessness -- was to change the lives of every man, woman and child in Canada and alter the shape of the nation. Using primary sources -- diaries, letters, unpublished manuscripts, public documents and newspapers -- Pierre Berton has reconstructed the incredible decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe -- contractors, politicians, financiers, surveyors, workingmen, journalists and entrepreneurs -- fought for the railway, or against it. The National Dream is above all else the story of people. It is the story of George McMullen, the brash young promoter who tried to blackmail the Prime Minister; of Marcus Smith, the crusty surveyor, so suspicious of authority he thought the Governor General was speculating in railway lands; of Sanford Fleming, the great engineer who invented Standard Time but who couldn't make up his mind about the best route for the railway. All these figures, and dozens more, including the political leaders of the era, come to life with all their human ambitions and failings.

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Publisher
Doubleday Canada
ISBN-10
0385658400
ISBN-13
9780385658409
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2228403

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Book Title
National Dream : the Great Railway, 1871-1881
Author
Pierre Berton
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Labor & Industrial Relations, Railroads / General, Infrastructure, Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Transportation, Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
464 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17 Oz

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"Pierre Berton is a chronicler of the first order who has brought photographic clarity to the great and the corrupt, to the zealots and the dreamers associated with Canada's first great vision of linking steel threads to the nation's fabric." -Montreal Star, "Pierre Berton is a chronicler of the first order who has brought photographic clarity to the great and the corrupt, to the zealots and the dreamers associated with Canada's first great vision of linking steel threads to the nation's fabric." - Montreal Star, "Pierre Berton is a chronicler of the first order who has brought photographic clarity to the great and the corrupt, to the zealots and the dreamers associated with Canada's first great vision of linking steel threads to the nation's fabric." Montreal Star
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
385/.0971
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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