Author: Peter Lacey
Title: The Muskeg Limited: The first 80 years of The Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway
Description: Winnipeg: pub's by author, 1993. Hard bound in blue laminated boards, 4to, Volume 1 of Manitoba Industrial and Utility Railways. Photos at endpapers. Illustrated throughout with photos and maps, Pp93. Includes references. Tight and unmarked - a very good copy. 550 grams. From the Foreword by the author: This history comes about because of a casual trip to the library one day, to see what information there was on the GWWD. There was almost none: a thing which I found puzzling. It was not for some time after that that it occurred to me that I could supply the lack; I had been wanting to write up some facet of local history but the two ideas did not come together in my mind immediately. Once started, it was both disconcerting and reassuring to me to find how little there was in print on the GWWD. Dosconcerting; because of the few items available -- mentions in standard reference works such as Jane's or Dorman, and the odd article -- it meant that I would have to find out everything for myself, that there would be little opportunity to compare my work to anyone else's. But at the same time it was reassuring to know that I would be presenting something new. As such, I've enjoyed the preparatory work and the actual writing much more than I would have had I been continuing another writer's story. I hope the result is satisfactory, particularly to the people best suited to criticize -- the present and former workers at the railway. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books.

Keywords: Manitoba Industrial Utility Railways' Muskeg Limited Manitoba Water Railway; Greater Winnipeg Water Railway 155056286x


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