Promoters and Politicians: The North-Shore Railways in the History of Quebec 1854-85
ISBN: 9781487585907
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: North Shore Railway (Quebec); Montreal Colonization Railway; Quebec Montreal Ottawa and Occidental Railway;

The history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec. As this study so clearly demonstrates, Quebec paid a high price in making its contribution to linking Canada by steel a mari usque ad mare.

Young Brian :

BRIAN J. YOUNG is James McGill Professor of History (emeritus) and a founding member of the Montreal History Group.


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