Cape Breton railways : an illustrated history / by Herb MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Herb, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transportation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, Nova Scotia : Cape Breton University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Expertly researched and richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and documents, many of them rarely seen, railroad historian Herb MacDonald paints an interesting and colourful picture of Cape Breton's railways in the contexts of the economic, cultural and political events on the island and beyond.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Tables and Graphs

Maps and Aerial Photos

1 - The General Mining and Associationand Cape Breton's First Railways

2 - Other Early Railways in the Sydney Coal Field

3 - The Intercolonial: Canada's Railway Network Joins Cape Breton

4 - Railways at the Strait of Canso

5 - At the Dawn of the Railways' Golden Age

6 - Moving People

7 - Coal, Steel and Cape Breton's Railways

8 - Other Railway Operations

9 - Working on the Railways: Railways As Employers

10 - Fading Away: The End of the Golden Age

11 - Cape Breton's Railway Heritage

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-77206-086-0

OCLC:

982012157