Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 456
UDK: 600 eng - gl.
Volume I with 520 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams
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ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
cent Empress Hotel, now standing on what was
once James Bay and overlooking the western
capital and the western ocean, constitutes a
worthy mate for the Chateau Frontenac com-
manding historic Quebec and the beautiful
St. Lawrence.
The C.P.R. was one of the pioneers of the
policy of building railroads in advance of
settlement. In the old world, population
became dense before the discovery of steam
power, and the trade was assured before rail-
way ventures were entered upon. Therefore
the wonderful results of the last twenty years
have seemed the more spectacular even while
the promise for the future still remains only
half fulfilled.
“We all know how the C.P.R. has helped
to make a nation.” Yet very few people, in
the days when the inland provinces of Canada
were thought to be habitable for coyotes and
Indians only, knew that in building a railroad
they were building a nation, and forging one
of the strongest of all the links in the chain
which, now binds together a mighty Empire.
VANCOUVER STATION, B.C.
(Photo, C.P.R. Company.)