A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia

by Frank Leonard

Book Overview

During the first two decades of this century, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway played an important part in the development of the north-central corridor of British Columbia. The GTP, which ran from Winnipeg via the Yellowhead Pass and Edmonton to Prince Rupert on the northwest coast, was built to supplant the Canadian Pacific line to Vancouver. The B.C. line was the most expensive and least remunerative of its sections and contributed ultimately to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774805323
• ISBN13: 9780774805322
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"