Author: Archibald William Currie
Publisher: University of Toronto
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 580
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Publisher: New York : Arno Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 18
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 33
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Published: 1977
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David R.P. Guay
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2016-07-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1459735560
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first detailed account of the rise and fall of the maritime branches of two of Canada’s great transcontinental railways of the early twentieth century: the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern.
Author: Frank Leonard
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0774842598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.