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Using primary sources diaries, letters, unpublished manuscripts, public documents and newspapers Pierre Berton has reconstructed the incredible decade of the 1870s, when Canadians of every stripe contractors,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 couldnt 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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Copyright 1970 by Pierre Berton Enterprises Ltd.
Anchor Canada paperback edition 2001
All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication, reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of the publisher or, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a license from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency is an infringement of the copyright law.
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Berton, Pierre, 1920
The national dream : the great railway, 18711881
eISBN: 978-0-385-67355-6
1. Canadian Pacific Railway Company History. 2. Canada History 18671914. 3. Railroads and state Canada History.
4. Railroads Canada History. I. Title.
HE2810.C2B48 2001 385.0971 C2001-9306067
Published in Canada by
Anchor Canada, a division of
Random House of Canada Limited
v3.1
The Royal Family
The Mysterious North
Klondike
Just Add Water and Stir
Adventures of a Columnist
Fast Fast Fast Relief
The Big Sell
The Comfortable Pew
The Cool, Crazy, Committed World of the Sixties
The Smug Minority
The National Dream
The Last Spike
Drifting Home
Hollywoods Canada
My Country
The Dionne Years
The Wild Frontier
The Invasion of Canada
Flames Across the Border
Why We Act Like Canadians
The Promised Land Vimy
Starting Out
The Arctic Grail
The Great Depression
Niagara: A History of the Falls
My Times: Living with History
1967, The Last Good Year
Picture Books
The New City (with Henri Rossier)
Remember Yesterday
The Great Railway
The Klondike Quest
Pierre Bertons Picture Book of Niagara Falls
Winter
The Great Lakes
Seacoasts
Pierre Bertons Canada
Anthologies
Great Canadians
Pierre and Janet Bertons
Canadian Food Guide
Historic Headlines
Farewell to the Twentieth Century
Worth Repeating
Welcome to the Twenty-first Century
Fiction
Masquerade (pseudonym Lisa Kroniuk)
Books for Young Readers
The Golden Trail
The Secret World of Og
Adventures in Canadian History (22 volumes)
Drawn by Courtney C. J. Bond
To Arthur Irwin
The Politicians
LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVES (TORIES)
Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada, 1867-73, 1878-91.
Sir George Etienne Cartier, Minister of Militia and Defence, 1867-73. Macdonalds Quebec lieutenant.
Doctor Charles Tupper, M.P . for Cumberland, Nova Scotia; President of the Privy Council, 1870-72; Minister of Inland Revenue, 1872-73; Minister of Customs, 1873; Minister of Public Works, 1878-79; Minister of Railways, 1879-84.
Sir Francis Hincks, Premier of United Canada, 1851-54; Minister of Finance, 1869-73.
Hector Louis Langevin, Minister of Public Works, 1869-73; Postmaster General, 1878-79; Minister of Public Works, 1879-91. Carriers successor as Macdonalds Quebec lieutenant.
J. J. C. Abbott, M.P . for Argenteuil, Quebec. Sir Hugh Allans legal counsel in 1873; legal counsel for the CPR Syndicate, 1880.
LIBERALS (CLEAR GRITS AND REFORMERS)
Alexander Mackenzie, Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Works, 1873-78.
Edward Blake, M.P . for Durham West, Ontario; Premier of Ontario, 1871-72; Minister without Portfolio, 1873-74; Minister of Justice, 1875-77; President of the Privy Council, 1877-78. Succeeded Alexander Mackenzie as Liberal leader, 1880.
Sir Richard Cartwright (Conservative to 1869), Minister of Finance, 1873-78.
Lucius Seth Huntington, Solicitor General for Lower Canada, 1863-64; M.P . for Shefford, Quebec, 1867-78; President of the Privy Council, 1874-75; Postmaster General, 1875-78. His speech in 1873 touched off the Pacific Scandal.
James D. Edgar, chief Liberal whip, 1872-74; delegate to British Columbia on CPR negotiations, 1874.
The Pathfinders
Sandford Fleming, chief engineer of the government-owned Intercolonial; Engineer-in-Chief of the CPR , 1871-80; succeeded by Collingwood Schreiber. Devised a workable system of standard time.
Marcus Smith, in charge of surveys in British Columbia, 1872-76; Flemings deputy in Ottawa, 1876-78. Strong proponent of Bute Inlet as CPR terminus.
Walter Moberly, assistant surveyor-general of British Columbia, 1865-66; in charge of mountain surveys for CPR , 1871-72. Discovered Eagle Pass.
Henry J. Cambie, in charge of British Columbia surveys after 1876, replacing Marcus Smith.
Charles Horetzky, photographer and explorer. Conducted exploratory surveys in the Pine Pass and Kitlope River regions.
The Entrepreneurs
Sir Hugh Allan, Montreal ship owner and financier whose syndicate was awarded the CPR contract in 1872. His heavy subscriptions to the Conservative Party implicated him in the Pacific Scandal.
Jay Cooke, Philadelphia banker who financed the Northern Pacific Railroad and hoped to control the CPR .
George W. McMullen, Canadian-born promoter from Chicago who produced American backers for Sir Hugh Allans company.
Senator David L. Macpherson, Toronto railway builder and rival of Sir Hugh Allan. He made a fortune in Grand Trunk Railway construction contracts and headed the Interoceanic Company, which bid unsuccessfully for the CPR contract in 1872.
James J. Hill, Canadian-born fuel and transportation merchant in St. Paul, Minnesota. Member of the CPR Syndicate, 1880.
Norman Kittson, early Minnesota fur trader; Hills partner in Red River Transportation Company and subsequent ventures. Member of the CPR Syndicate, 1880.
Donald A. Smith, M.P . for Selkirk, 1871-78; Labrador fur trader who rose to become resident governor and Chief Commissioner of the Hudsons Bay Company in Canada. He was a partner of Hill and Kittson in Red River Transportation Company and subsequent railroad ventures. Member of the CPR Syndicate, 1880.
George Stephen, Donald A. Smiths cousin; president of the Bank of Montreal, 1876-81. He helped Smith, Hill and Kittson organize the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway. Member of the CPR Syndicate and president of the CPR , 1881-88.
John S. Kennedy, New York banker who represented Dutch bondholders of the bankrupt St. Paul railway and arranged reorganization. Member of the CPR Syndicate, 1880.
Duncan McIntyre, president of Canada Central Railway. Member of and spokesman for the CPR Syndicate, 1880.
The Builders
Joseph Whitehead, Liberal M.P ., awarded contracts on the Pembina Branch of the CPR and on Section Fifteen between Cross Lake and Rat Portage, west of Lake Superior.
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