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New World Dreams: Canadian Pacific Railway and the Golden Northwest
The most comprehensive history of Canadian Pacific ever published. New World Dreams is an in-depth exploration of how a transportation company created a vision for a burgeoning nation and played a leading role in driving immigration to the Canadian West.
“A complete social history, beautifully illustrated with photos, posters, maps, letters, and ads, which bring the story of Canadian Pacific’s effects vividly to life.”
—Derek Hayes, author of Iron Road West: An Illustrated History of British Columbia’s Railways
Author David Laurence Jones is the former manager of internal communications at Canadian Pacific Railway and worked for fourteen years in the railway’s corporate archives where he researched and collected stories and anecdotes about the CPR’s rich heritage.
“David Laurence Jones offers thoughtful, modern insight into the CPR’s planning and construction, managing land grants, and recruiting, transporting, and settling emigrants”
—Brian Solomon, author of more than 60 books on railways and a monthly columnist for Trains Magazine
Contains more than 400 images, including never-before-published archival photos and full-colour advertisements.
“Few historians are better equipped than David Laurence Jones, a former CPR archivist, to recount the stories of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s schemes to ‘open’ Western Canada to non-Indigenous settlement.”
—Ron Brown, author of The Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore: An Illustrated History of the Railway Stations in Canada
