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2023
Heritage House Publishing.
Soft cover
448 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, $49.95 Amazon.
Tracing the history of this highly influential corporation from the initial CP contract and land grant, historian David Laurence Jones explores CP's involvement in carving out routes to the region, building towns, promoting Western Canada's arable land and economic potential to Europeans and Americans, operating steamships, spearheading some of the largest irrigation projects in the world, and devising unique settlement schemes such as ready-made farms. Illustrated with more than four hundred archival photos and colour advertisements, New World Dreams is the most extensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published.
2023
Doubleday Canada Ltd.
Hard cover
416 pages, 6.6 x 9.6 inches, $30.00 Amazon.
With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railway in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era.
Some of these posters are not original Canadian Pacific Railway posters but are interesting none the less for capturing the spirit of the age. Can you spot the fakes?
