David R P Guay

Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first detailed account of the rise and fall of the maritime branches of two of Canada's great transcontinental railways of the early twentieth century: the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 213mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781459735552
• ISBN-10: 1459735552
• Artikelnr.: 44028330

Autorenporträt

David R.P. Guay is a lifelong railroadiana collector and the author of Great Western Railway of Canada, Tracks to the Trenches, and Hiram Walker's Railroad: The Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway. He lives in Windsor, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface/Acknowledgements 
* Chapter 1 Canadian Maritime Trade in the Edwardian Era (1900-1914) 
* Chapter 2 Grand Trunk Pacific Coast Steamships: Mackenzie Brothers
Limited 
* Chapter 3 Prince Ships (and Other Vessels) of Grand Trunk Pacific
Coast Steamships 
* Chapter 4 "Working Stiffs": The Iconic Tow/Tugboat "Lorne" and the
Skeena and Upper Fraser Stern-wheelers of the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway 
* Chapter 5 Royal and Duke Ships (and Other Vessels) of the Canadian
Northern Railway Passenger Freight Shipping Initiatives on Salt
Water 
* Chapter 6 Canadian Northern Railway Passenger/Freight Shipping
Initiatives on Fresh Water 
* Epilogue 
* Appendix I. House Flags and Funnels of Shipping Lines Mentioned in
the Text 
* Appendix II. Scale-Modelling of GTP/CNoR Vessels/Maritime
Infrastructure 
* Appendix III. Glossary of Nautical Abbreviations and Terms (In Order
of Appearance) 
* References 
* Index