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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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Late events have shown us that we are made one people by that road, that that iron link has bound us together in such a way that we stand superior to most of the shafts of ill-fortune
Sir John A. Macdonald, June, 1885
All I can say is that the work has been done well in every way.
W. C. Van Horne, at Craigellachie
Copyright 1971 by Pierre Berton Enterprises Ltd.
Anchor Canada paperback edition 2001
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Berton, Pierre, 1920
The last spike : the great railway 18811885
eISBN: 978-0-385-67354-9
1. Canadian Pacific Railway Company History 19th century. 2. Canada History 1867-1914. 3. Railroads and state Canada History 19th century. 4. Railroads Canada History 19th century. I. Title.
HE2810.C2B482 2001 385.0971 C2001-930605-9
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Anchor Canada, a division of
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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
The Politicians
Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada, 186773, 187891.
Sir Charles Tupper, Minister of Railways, 187984; High Commissioner to London, 188496.
John Henry Pope, Minister of Agriculture, 187885; Minister of Railways and Canals, 188589. Tuppers deputy during his absence.
Senator Frank Smith, Minister without Portfolio, 188291. Wholesale grocer and railway executive.
Edward Blake, Leader of the Liberal opposition, 188087.
Edgar Dewdney, Indian Commissioner, Manitoba and North West Territories, 187988; Lieutenant-Governor of the North West Territories, 188188.
The CPR Syndicate
George Stephen, president of the CPR , 188188. Former president of the Bank of Montreal. He helped Donald Smith and James J. Hill organize the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway in late 70s.
Duncan McIntyre, vice-president of the CPR , 188184. President of the Canada Central Railway.
James J. Hill, member of the executive committee of the CPR , 188183. Organized the Great Northern Railroad in the United States.
Richard Bladworth Angus, member of the executive committee of the CPR . Elected vice-president in 1883. Former general manager of the Bank of Montreal.
Donald A. Smith, Labrador fur trader who rose to become resident governor and Chief Commissioner of the Hudsons Bay Company in Canada. A major CPR stockholder and a director after 1883.
John S. Kennedy, New York banker allied with Hill, Stephen, and Smith in the St. Paul railway venture.
The Pathfinders
General Thomas Lafayette Rosser, chief engineer of the CPR , 188182; former chief engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
J. H. E. Secretan, locating engineer, head of a CPR survey party on the prairies.
Charles Aeneas Shaw, locating engineer, head of a CPR survey party on the prairies and later in the mountains.
Major A. B. Rogers, engineer in charge of the mountain division of the CPR . Formerly locating engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.
Tom Wilson, packer and guide, friend of Major Rogers.
Henry J. Cambie, former Canadian government engineer. Engineer for Andrew Onderdonk on Contract 60 in the Fraser Canyon area and later for the CPR between Kamloops and Eagle Pass.
Marcus Smith, the Canadian governments inspecting engineer on the Onderdonk contract between Port Moody and Emory in British Columbia.
Collingwood Schreiber, the governments engineer-in-chief, formerly chief engineer of the government-owned Intercolonial Railway.
The Builders
Alpheus B. Stickney, general superintendent of the CPRS western division, 1881; formerly superintendent of construction on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway.
William Cornelius Van Horne, general manager of the CPR , 1882; vice-president and general manager, 1884; president, 188899; chairman of the board, 18991910. Formerly general superintendent, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.
John Egan, superintendent of the CPRS western division after 1882. Formerly divisional superintendent, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.
Thomas Shaughnessy, general purchasing agent of the CPR , 188285; assistant general manager, 1885; vice-president and general manager, 1888; president, 18991917. Formerly general storekeeper, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad.
Harry Abbott, in charge of the eastern section of the CPRS Lake Superior construction.
John Ross, in charge of the western section of the CPRS Lake Superior construction.
James Ross, in charge of construction for the CPRS mountain division. Built the Credit Valley Railway, 187879.
Andrew Onderdonk, contractor in charge of government construction between Port Moody and Savonas Ferry on Kamloops Lake, 188185. Also built section of CPR line between Savonas Ferry and Craigellachie in Eagle Pass.
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