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Wayne Larsen. Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 26–30
1. The Man Who Built theTrans-Canada Railway
2. Early Career
3. Realizing a Dream
4. New Challenges and Hobbies
5. Van Horne Moves to Canada
6. Headed for the Top
7. Czar of the CPR
8. The Family at Home
9. The Artist and Collector
10. Cuba Beckons
11. Chasing the Money
12. The Twilight Years
Chronology ofWilliam C. Van Horne
Bibliography
Index
Prologue: A Gentleman in Waiting
1. Dingwall: Search for Scottish Origins
2. London: This Youth Is Just Come. from the Highlands
3. Rupert’s Land: War in the Athabasca
4. Red River: Recall Your Memory to That Summer
5. Columbia: “A Spirit of Enterprize”
6. Marriage: Many Tender Ties
7 “Character Book”: The Strangest Man I Ever Knew
8. Diplomacy: As If Awakened from a Dream
9. Rupert’s Land: Everything Is in Extremes
10. California: Nature Doing Every Thing, Man Doing Nothing
11. Sandwich Islands: “By the Sweat of Their Brows”
12. Siberia: “They Looked as If Actually Afloat”
13. Glow of Power: Riding with the Emperor
14. Last Years: The Polite Old English Gentleman
Epilogue: Blaze of Glory
Chronology of Sir George Simpson (1792–1860)
Introduction
1. An Excavation at Canoe Lake
2. From Forests to Fields
3. A Young Man About Town
4. Shooting the Rapids
5. Storm Clouds on the Horizon
6. Bursts of Light and Colour
7. In the Northland
8. The Pageant of the North
9. An Overturned Canoe
10. Establishing the Icon
Epigraph
Bibliography
Chronology of Tom Thomson (1877–1917)
Prologue
1. War Drums
2. Captivity
3. Fort Pitt
4. Border Troubles
5. Rebellion
6. Renegade
7. Traps
8. Brothers in Arms
9. The Fate of Colonel William Crawford
10. Blue Licks
11. An Awkward Dilemma
12. Simon and Catherine
13. Return of the White Savage
14. The Battle of the Wabash
15. Mad Anthony
16. An Old Warrior Without a War
Epilogue
Chronology of Simon Girty
Bibliography
Prologue
1. The Toronto Neighbourhood
2. Nineteen Weeks of One-Night Stands
3. Broadway or Bust
4. The Flickers
5. A Wedding in Secret
6. Her Name in Lights
7. Enter Douglas Fairbanks
8. The Marriage of the Century
9. Success and Sorrow
10. The Trouble with Talkies
11. The End of the Fairy Tale
12. Life After Douglas
13. Legacy
Epilogue
Chronology of Mary Pickford (1892–1979)
Bibliography
Copyright
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At last the development that William Cornelius Van Horne has set his sights on has arrived: the driving of the last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway’s trans-Canada line. It is November 7, 1885, a dull, raw day in Craigellachie in British Columbia’s Eagle Pass, west of Revelstoke in the Rocky Mountains.
The photograph that records this epochal event in Canadian history shows a phalanx of dark fir trees and cedars and in front of it a crowd of men. Workmen, surveyors, construction managers, and curious onlookers, they crane forward to watch a white-bearded figure in a stovepipe hat stoop to pick up his maul and complete the line. The first choice to perform the task was Governor General Lord Lansdowne, the son-in-law of Queen Victoria, but neither he nor George Stephen, the CPR president, can be here. So the honour falls to Donald Smith, a company director who twelve years later will become Lord Strathcona.
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Ottawa, Ontario, 88, 102
Pacific Scandal, 69, 200
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