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CAPE BRETON RAILWAYS - AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY - HERB MACDONALD
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- 9781897009673
- Book Title
- Cape Breton Railways : an Illustrated History
- Publisher
- Cape Breton University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Features
- New Edition
- Genre
- Travel, Transportation
- Topic
- Railroads / History, Australia & Oceania, Railroads / Pictorial
- Item Weight
- 18.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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CAPE BRETON'S RAIL LINES are perhaps best known for their substantial roles in the coal and steel industries-and their decline as those industries faded away. Yet, despite their prominent connections to coal and steel, railways played many other important roles in the life of the Island.For a hundred years, railways carried people to and from Cape Breton as well as between communities on the island. Railways carried the mail; before the development of the telephone system, the railway companies provided telegraph service for occasions when the mail was too slow; railways moved freight and express for individuals and businesses; and the railways provided jobs, in large numbers, directly to their own employees and indirectly through companies whose products and services they used.The first horse-powered line at Sydney Mines is a contender for recognition as the first railway in Canada, a subject examined in chapter 1. The case for that honour requires a definition of "railway" based on a long-run sense of history-but any serious look at railways calls for a long-run view.In 1829, only four years after the opening of the Stockton and Darlington in County Durham, England, the railway age came to Cape Breton. The first lines on the island used horse-power for more than two decades. Steam locomotives did not arrive until 1853. The early Cape Breton experience was a direct transfer of early English technology, but what had happened in England over the course of two hundred years occurred on Cape Breton within the span of twenty-five years.Over the next century-and-a-half, as some areas of Cape Breton evolved from a rural and agricultural society into an urban and industrial one, railways played a central role in supporting the changes that took place. This book looks at those railways in the contexts of what was happening on and beyond the Island.Cape Breton's railways were shaped by factors such physical geography, availability of both capital and customers, and the distribution of population and industries. In response to those factors, railway builders and operators often had to make difficult choices and try to deal with factors they could not control.
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Publisher
Cape Breton University Press
ISBN-10
1897009674
ISBN-13
9781897009673
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143853020
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cape Breton Railways : an Illustrated History
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Railroads / History, Australia & Oceania, Railroads / Pictorial
Illustrator
Yes
Features
New Edition
Genre
Travel, Transportation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.5 in
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Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Dewey Decimal
385.09716/9
Edition Description
New Edition
Copyright Date
2012
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