Bibliograph

Cape Breton Railways, an Illustrated History

Type

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Cape Breton Railways, an Illustrated History

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cape Breton Railways

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

an Illustrated History

Summary

Cape Breton's Rail Lines are perhaps best known for their substantial roles in the coal and steel industries. Shaped by factors such as physical geography, the availability of both capital and customers, and the distribution of population and industries, railways have played many important roles in the life of the island. For more than a century-and-a-half after 1829 - when the railway age first came to Cape Breton - railways played a central role in supporting change as some areas of the island evolved from a rural and agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. Expertly researched and richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and documents, many of them rarely seen, railroad historian Herb MacDonald paints an interesting and colourful picture of Cape Breton's railways in the contexts of the economic, cultural and political events on the island and beyond

Target audience

adult

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