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Author : Canada. Department of Transport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : UCAL:B4506434
Author : Canada. Department of Transport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Railroads
ISBN : OCLC:1435964496
Author : Geoffrey J. Matthews
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780802034489
Uses maps to illustrate the development of Canada from the last ice sheet to the end of the eighteenth century
Author : John F. Due
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781442638440
The intercity electric railway industry in Canada, which began in 1887, ended in 1959. It was never a major industry but its role in the transition of Canadian land transportation from almost sole reliance on the steam railroad to dominance of the motor vehicle should not be overlooked. Professor Due's study, divided into two parts, presents first a general review of the development, characteristics, financial situation, and decline of the industry and then a brief history of each of the twenty-five companies which operated in the industry. (Canadian Studies in Economics, No. 18)
Author : Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136138201
The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.
Author : Morris Zaslow
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005503
Volume XVI of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. This pioneer study traces Canada’s northward expansion in the years after Confederation. In the forefront of the movement were fur-traders, missionaries, and gold-seekers. Behind them came provincial and federal governments, concerned for their authority, and anxious to develop the riches of the North. Under the Laurier government (1896--1911) the advance quickened, and the roles of the Geological Survey, North-West Mounted Police, and Departments of the Interior, Indian Affairs, and Marine and Fisheries, gained new importance. Professor Zaslow, in examining the opening of social, cultural, economic, and industrial frontiers, chronicles the outstanding achievements, as well as the far-reaching failures of the period. A country which, by Confederation in 1867, had barely extended beyond the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence Lowlands region, had by 1914 occupied the prairies. Aided by new transcontinental railways, its people had begun moving into the forests of the Middle North along a front that extended from Lake St. John to Dawson, and the Arctic frontier beyond received increasing attention. But the governments failed in their treatment of the Indigenous population, and in their eagerness to foster development they allowed the resources to be exploited blindly, for and by foreign interests in the main. These were exciting, complex years; in Professor Zaslow’s words, “years of apprenticeship, when Canada began to come to grips with the facts of its northern nature.” First published in 1971, Zaslow’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : Gerald Friesen,Barry Potyondi
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887550249
Local history buffs, students, teachers, and armchair historians will find a wealth of information and practical advice in this guide to the study of local history. The authors explore some of the most fruitful areas of research in such themes as the environment, population, transportation and communication, agriculture, politics, social and family life. In five appendices they provide more detailed information for the determined researcher. Specific advice is given on compiling a community archive or data base, and on publishing a local history. An extensive bibliography and a guide to local archives complete the book.
Author : P.B. Waite
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771003479
Volume XIII of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. In 1874 Canada was only seven years old, still a vast agglomeration of territories joined together only by a paper constitution and some useful common interests. The Intercolonial Railway that would stitch the Maritime Provinces to Quebec and Ontario was still unfinished; the Canadian Pacific Railway was still a chaos of unknowns. To sustain Canada was to take great energy and persistence. By 1896, however, Canada had developed the basis for a distinctive national existence. From arguments between the provinces and the Dominion over borders to religious disputes in Quebec, Manitoba, and the Maritimes, to the second Riel rebellion, during these two decades Canada faced the challenge of consolidating its sparse and scattered elements, and succeeded in drawing its immensity close enough together to withstand the pull to join the United States. Professor Waite has written a history that engages politics, poetry, and personalities. His conviction that it is people who make history brings to life some of the most dynamic people this country has ever known: Macdonald, Blake, Mackenzie, the Tuppers, father and son, and more austere figures like Tardivel and D’Alton McCarthy. Professor Waite has written a scholar’s history in the best sense: informative, readable, lively, not without humour, and unafraid of telling the truth. First published in 1971, Peter B. Waite’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.
Author : Frank Leonard
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780774842594
In A Thousand Blunders, Frank Leonard looks at why the 'Road of a Thousand Wonders' failed to live up to the expectations forecast by company president Charles M. Hays and other senior managers. Not only was the railway built through a sparsely settled region, which generated little immediate traffic, but its economic difficulties were also compounded by the numerous mistakes made by managers at all levels: for example, their failure to respond adequately to labour shortages caused serious delays and prevented the company from proving Prince Rupert as an effective alternative harbour before World War I broke out. For this book, Frank Leonard had access to a wealth of original documents, among them the GTP legal department files, providing him with insights into the decisions that formed the basis for policies in townsites and on Indian reserves. A Thousand Blunders is a provocative account of one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history. Richly detailed and thoroughly documented, it makes an important contribution to the fields of railway and business history, as well as to the study of the history of northern British Columbia.
Author : S. Steinberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1606 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230270794
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : D. E. Stoltz,Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport, Queen's University
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Railroad companies
ISBN : UCBK:C100874224
The central role played by railways in the economic and political history of Canada is amply reflected in law books. In a century and a half of railway history several thousand companies have been chartered to build railways, and statutes depict the origins, growth, and vicissitudes of virtually all of them. The purpose of this document is to present a practical synopsis of this voluminous body of legislation and certain related documents and to serve as a finding aid that will enhance access to the original sources.
Author : J. Lorne McDougall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773593343
Author : Brian J Young
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781487586300
The history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec. Constructed in the fifteen years following Confederation, the North Shore and the Montreal Colonization Railways reinforced Quebec's integration into a transcontinental unit. Yet bankruptcy of both companies in 1875 forced the provincial government to assume ownership of the railways and to shoulder a financial burden that kept the province preoccupied, weak, and subservient to Ottawa. Diverse political, clerical, and business interests united to construct the railways and to manoeuvre them from private companies into a public venture and ultimately into the Canadian Pacific system. The two railways brought new concentrations of capital and power that cut across French and English ethnic lines and sharpened regional rivalries. Along the south short of the St. Lawrence both French- and English-speaking inhabitants protested against the province's commitments to its north-shore railways. By the late 1870s Quebec City's English community was lobbying hard against the growing power of their English-speaking counterparts in Montreal. The north-shore railways plagued a generation of Quebec politicians, and their construction bared incompatible regional aspirations. By 1885 years of negotiation, scandal, and political blackmail culminated in the incorporation of the two north-shore railways into the Canadian Pacific system. As this study so clearly demonstrates, Quebec paid a high price in making its contribution to linking Canada by steel a mari usque ad mare.
Author : Douglas J. Puffert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226685090
A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other.
Author : Jacob Spelt
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773595309
