Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway; Up to January 1877
by Fleming, Sandford
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Ottawa: MacLean, Roger & Co. 1877. (Rebound cloth) 431pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Tables, maps, index, 4 folding profiles. Lacks sheets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and there are minor pencil markings in the text. "Sir - I have the honour to submit the following Report on the Surveys and Explorations carried on under my directions to determine the location of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Commenced in 1871, these Surveys have extended over a period of six years; and it now becomes my duty to place before you the results arrived at, so that, as far as practicable, the information deducible form the several examinations may be made accessible for reference, and the fact which have been established by these six years of labour may fully and properly be preserved" - from the text. Time Period 1870's. Locale: Canada. (Western Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway, Reports, Trains, Transportation).
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- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 151111
- Title
- Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway; Up to January 1877
- Author
- Fleming, Sandford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- MacLean, Roger & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Keywords
- Western Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway, Reports, Trains, Transportation
- Bookseller catalogs
- CANADIAN HISTORY;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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