CAPE BRETON'S RAIL LINES are perhaps best known for their substantial roles in the coal and steel industries. Shaped by factors such as physical geography, the availability of both capital and customers, and the distribution of population and industries, railways have played many important roles in the life of the island. For more than a century-and-a-half after 1829 -- when the railway age first came to Cape Breton -- railways played a central role in supporting change as some areas of the island evolved from a rural and agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. Expertly researched and richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and documents, many of them rarely seen, railroad historian Herb MacDonald paints an interesting and colourful picture of Cape Breton's railways in the contexts of the economic, cultural and political events on the island and beyond.--Publisher's description.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 385.09716/9
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-ns
- ISBN
- 9781772060867 9781897009673
- LCCN
- HE2809.N6
- LCCN Item number
- M332 2012eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (264 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00237630 (OCoLC)982012157 (CaOOCEL)452848
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Table of Contents 6
- Tables and Graphs 8
- Maps and Aerial Photos 9
- 1 – The General Mining and Associationand Cape Breton’s First Railways 15
- 2 – Other Early Railways in the Sydney Coal Field 32
- 3 – The Intercolonial: Canada’s Railway Network Joins Cape Breton 49
- 4 – Railways at the Strait of Canso 66
- 5 – At the Dawn of the Railways’ Golden Age 89
- 6 – Moving People 112
- 7 – Coal, Steel and Cape Breton’s Railways 131
- 8 – Other Railway Operations 149
- 9 – Working on the Railways: Railways As Employers 170
- 10 – Fading Away: The End of the Golden Age 192
- 11 – Cape Breton’s Railway Heritage 211
- Notes 223
- Bibliography 250
- Index 261
