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Acknowledgements

I again want to express my gratitude to the staffs of the Metropolitan Toronto Central Public Library and the Public Archives of Canada, where most of the research for this book was done. In many cases they went well beyond the call of normal duty to assist me – with unfailing cheerfulness. I received the same co-operation from the Public Archives of British Columbia, the unique Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Public Archives of Saskatchewan, the Public Archives of Manitoba, and the Public Archives of Ontario. My thanks also go again to Mrs. Marian Childs of the Fort William Public Reference Library.

My research assistant for the first eighteen months of the preparation of the two volumes of
The Great Railway
was Norman Kelly,
M.A
. Without his help, his advice, and his insights, I could not have completed these books in the time at my disposal.

I again wish to thank Norma Carrier, who transcribed so many of Mr. Kelly’s notes, Ennis Halliday Armstrong, my former secretary, and her successor Anne Michie, whose job it was to transcribe and collate notes, search out hundreds of books and officiai documents, and (in Mrs. Michie’s case) check all manuscript sources and quotations and prepare bibliographies.

I want especially to thank Michael Bliss of the University of Toronto history department for his extremely valuable comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript and for drawing my attention to George Stephen’s letter to John A. Macdonald in 1890, outlining his contributions to the Conservative cause.

The book was read in both typescript and proof by my wife, Janet, whose unfailing eye for grammatical inconsistency, typographical error, syllogism, and fuzzy construction has been, for a quarter of a century, a bonus of our marriage; Janet Craig performed the same job for McClelland and Stewart, with awesome efficiency.

Two
CPR
history buffs, T. E. Price of Vancouver and his son Alex, of Calgary, were of enormous help in many ways, especially in the matter of unpublished material. With the former’s assistance I was able to read the papers of Henry Cambie, which are used here through the kind offices of the owner, Mrs. John D. Ross. Alex Price obtained for me a copy of Tom Wilson’s manuscript, set down in 1931 with the help of W. E. Round. I have the permission of Tom’s son, Ed Wilson, to quote from it. My gratitude also goes to William Pearce for lending me copies of his father’s unpublished manuscripts, to Hamilton Miles for background on his uncle, Lauchlan Hamilton, and to Jenny Lee for information about her grandfather, Pon Git Cheng.

Of secondary sources listed in the Bibliography, special mention must be made of Walter Vaughan’s
Life of Sir William Van Horne
, the first volume of Heather Gilbert’s biography of George Stephen,
Awakening Continent
, John Murray Gibbon’s
Steel of Empire
, Harold Innis’s
History of the Canadian Pacific Railway
, and last, but certainly not least, Donald Creighton’s biography of John A. Macdonald, especially the second volume,
The Old Chieftain
.

As outlined in the acknowledgements for
The National Dream
, the officers of the Canadian Pacific Railway were of considerable help both to me and to Mr. Kelly, answering many queries and assisting us both in our trips across Canada. But this is in no sense a “company history.” The
CPR
did not open all of its files to us. I was not able to see the complete letters of Sir William Van Horne, from which selected excerpts are available at the Public Archives, or any of the other correspondence still in the company’s hands. The reason given to me was that it would not be in the public interest to make such documents available. With that attitude, of course, I must vigorously disagree. Anything that has to do with the beginnings of Canada’s first transcontinental railway is in the public interest. After all, that is what these books have been about.

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