The Railroader's Wife: Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

by Jane Stevenson and Jane Stevenson

Book Overview

The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railroader Leslie Martin in 1912 and arrived later that year in Prince Rupert at the height of rock blasting and railroad building. Lonely for her family in Wisconsin, Bernice wrote frequent letters home in which she described in striking detail the machinery and mudslides, the weather and the wilderness, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894759435
• ISBN13: 9781894759434
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Caitlin Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.0"