Gentlemen And Ladies Who Read About Trains,

We have added a couple of unique books, as much about early Canadian history as about early Canadian railroads.  Take the mile and a half railroad - a very necessary rail line, to take passengers from one steam boat to another; it was fittingly enough called, "The Portage Railway".

It was “The smallest commercially operated railway in the world” and was in business for many decades.  The Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway served as  a vital link between two steam boat routes carrying tourists and supplies to the Lake of Bays, plus tank bard and cut lumber to Peninsula Lake (and on to Huntsville).

Then there is the "Canadian Pacific, The Golden Age of Travel" with many pictures of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and its line that connected the east and the west.  The cover says it all:

In this sumptuously illustrated history of a company whose story is integral to the Golden Age of Travel, Barry Lane recounts the history of the Canadian Pacific, from the construction of the transcontinental railway (more than 2,000 miles linking the Atlantic to the Pacific) to the development of the hotels and the building of the shipping line that linked Canada to the rest of the world.

Then there are two other books newly added to our website:

Bytown Publishing's Hamilton's Other Railway:

The history of the Hamilton and Northwestern Railway from its construction and ownership by the Grand Trunk, to the takeover and eventual abandonment by Canadian National Railways.  Again, it is Canadian history in words and pictures.

And finally for today, another Bytown Publishing book, The Quebec Railway Light & Power Company - Volume 1 .

This is a pictorial history book in the Society's traction series. This time it covers one of Canada's best known electric interurban railways, the Montmorency Division.  Again, it's a picture book out of earlier days.