
The Last Spike
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Dominating the whole saga are the men who made it all possible — a host of astonishing characters: Van Horne, the powerhouse behind the vision of a transcontinental railroad; Rogers, the eccentric surveyor; Onderdonk, the cool New Yorker; Stephen, the most emotional of businessmen; Father Lacombe, the black-robed voyageur; Sam Steele, of the North West Mounted Police; Gabriel Dumont, the Prince of the Prairies; more than 7,000 Chinese workers, toiling and dying in the canyons of the Fraser Valley; and many more — land sharks, construction geniuses, politicians, and entrepreneurs — all of whom played a role in the founding of the new Canada west of Ontario.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Other Books by This Author
- Contents
- Maps
- Cast of Major Characters
- The Great Canadian Photograph
- One
- 1. The end and the beginning
- 2. How John Macoun altered the map
- 3. The first of the CPR towns
- 4. The "paid ink-slingers"
- 5. Enter Van Horne
- Two
- 1. The great Winnipeg boom
- 2. Fool's paradise
- 3. "Towns cannot live of themselves"
- 4. The bubble bursts
- Three
- 1. The new broom
- 2. Five hundred miles of steel
- 3. End of Track
- 4. Edgar Dewdney's new capital
- 5. The Grand Trunk declares war
- Four
- 1. "Hell's Bells Rogers"
- 2. On the Great Divide
- 3. The Major finds his pass
- 4. The Prairie Gopher
- 5. "The loneliness of savage mountains"
- Five
- 1. Onderdonk's lambs
- 2. "The beardless children of China"
- 3. Michael Haney to the rescue
- 4. The Sentinel of Yale
- Six
- 1. The Promised Land
- 2. The displaced people
- 3. Prohibition
- 4. The magical influence
- 5. George Stephen's disastrous gamble
- 6. The CPR goes political
- Seven
- 1. The armoured shores of Superior
- 2. Treasure in the rocks
- 3. The Big Hill
- 4. "The ablest railway general in the world"
- 5. The Pacific terminus
- 6. Not a dollar to spare
- 7. The edge of the precipice
- Eight
- 1. Eighteen eighty-five
- 2. Riel: the return of the Messiah
- 3. "I wish I were well out of it"
- 4. Marching as to war
- 5. The cruel journey
- Nine
- 1. A new kind of Canadian
- 2. Stephen throws in the towel
- 3. Riot at Beavermouth
- 4. The eleventh hour
- 5. A land no longer lonely
- 6. Craigellachie
- Aftermath
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
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