New World Dreams : Canadian Pacific Railway and the Golden Northwest / David Laurence Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, David Laurence, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian Pacific Railway Company--History.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

Canadian Pacific Railway Company--History--Pictorial works.

Railroads--Canada, Western--History.

Railroads.

Railroads--Canada, Western--History--Pictorial works.

Canada, Western--Emigration and immigration--History.

Canada, Western.

Canada, Western--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (774 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., [2023]

Summary:

An in-depth exploration of how a transportation company created a vision for a burgeoning nation and played a leading role driving immigration to the Canadian West. Best known for its monumental achievements in transportation technology, Canadian Pacific Railway (or "CP") was instrumental in constructing the concept--and the reality--of the country we now call Canada. In addition to building the railroad that connected the country from coast to coast, CP was also highly effective at selling the idea of a vast and rich land of opportunity and triggering a massive wave of immigration to what was dubbed the "Golden Northwest" (later the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta). No other independent corporation in the world made such a profound contribution to the creation of a national enterprise, nor outspent a national government in populating its frontiers with settlers from specifically targeted areas, often at the expense of Indigenous populations and their traditional territories. Tracing the history of this highly influential corporation from the initial CP contract and land grant, historian David Laurence Jones explores CP's involvement in carving out routes to the region, building towns, promoting Western Canada's arable land and economic potential to Europeans and Americans, operating steamships, spearheading some of the largest irrigation projects in the world, and devising unique settlement schemes such as ready-made farms. Illustrated with more than four hundred archival photos and colour advertisements, New World Dreams is the most extensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published. s. Tracing the history of this highly influential corporation from the initial CP contract and land grant, historian David Laurence Jones explores CP's involvement in carving out routes to the region, building towns, promoting Western Canada's arable land and economic potential to Europeans and Americans, operating steamships, spearheading some of the largest irrigation projects in the world, and devising unique settlement schemes such as ready-made farms. Illustrated with more than four hundred archival photos and colour advertisements, New World Dreams is the most extensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published. s. Tracing the history of this highly influential corporation from the initial CP contract and land grant, historian David Laurence Jones explores CP's involvement in carving out routes to the region, building towns, promoting Western Canada's arable land and economic potential to Europeans and Americans, operating steamships, spearheading some of the largest irrigation projects in the world, and devising unique settlement schemes such as ready-made farms. Illustrated with more than four hundred archival photos and colour advertisements, New World Dreams is the most extensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published. s. Tracing the history of this highly influential corporation from the initial CP contract and land grant, historian David Laurence Jones explores CP's involvement in carving out routes to the region, building towns, promoting Western Canada's arable land and economic potential to Europeans and Americans, operating steamships, spearheading some of the largest irrigation projects in the world, and devising unique settlement schemes such as ready-made farms. Illustrated with more than four hundred archival photos and colour advertisements, New World Dreams is the most extensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published. projects in the world, and devising unique settlement schemes such as ready-made farms. Illustrated with more than four hundred archival photos and colour advertisements, New World Dreams is the most extensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published.

Contents:

This land is your land

Homesteaders, Scpuelators, and Urban Planners

A hard sell

The Call of the New World

True Believers Head West

The Twentieth Century Belongs to Canada

Growing the business

The boom years

The last best west

A World in Disarray

Spanning the world

Dark, dreary, and deadly days

To Canada by sea and by air.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jones, David Laurence New World Dreams

ISBN:

9781772034561

1772034568

OCLC:

1419061879