UNDERWOOD JAY
FLEMING'S ARMY: the civil engineers who built Canada's Intercolonial Railway : biographies of masterminds, rogues, poseurs and luckless Adventureres
Montreal, Railfare DC Books. 2011, First Edition. (ISBN: 1897190719) Paperbound. Book, pict. paper wraps, 224 pages, illustrated, "The many entries in this well-organised work rest on painstaking research, evidence of which is abundant in the footnotes." - SLS Journal (Stephenson Locomotive Society) Sept/Oct 2012. Deals with the period of the mid-1800s, when railway technology projects were viewed as making (or breaking) a community - 'making' if the railway came to 'our' town, or hamlet, or even passed near our field - 'breaking' if it did not, for our community would surely suffer, wither, maybe even die if passed by Size: 8 vo. Fine.
Harry E. Bagley Books Ltd.
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Keywords: 1897190719 Railroad Engineers -- Canada Biography. ,Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915. , Intercolonial Railway (Canada) History. , Engineering History 19th Century. Biography & Autobiography Railroads/Transportation