On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Winner 1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award —...
Railroads
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Author:Lawson, JulieSummary: -
Author:Trainer, Mary, Antonson, Brian, Antonson, Rick, Evans, DonSummary:Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia....
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Author:Varro, Joe, Kerr, DonSummary: - Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:
Brilliant engineer Warren Neale is determined to finish the most ambitious project in American history -- the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. The terrain and climate provide formidable obstacles, but a troublesome group of...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:Just as young surveyor Warren Neale discovers graft and corruption in the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming, his fiancee Allie is kidnapped by ruffians.
- Author:Theroux, PaulSummary:
"I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it," confesses the author. Take the train with him through Europe and Asia.
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At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back...
- Author:Lightfoot, Gordon, Wallace, IanSummary:
This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot’s heart-stirring song, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” to readers young and old. The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada’s centennial year and it has been a classic...
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Author:Argyle, RaySummary:Edward Mallandaine was there! To prove it he thrust himself into the historic photograph of the "Last Spike" being driven to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Surrounded by the railway dignitaries of the time, his...
- Author:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
Hard-as-nails mountain man Smoke Jensen and his band of friends have ventured into the remote regions of the Canadian Rockies to protect railroaders from deadly bandits. Soon, they're headed down a one way track to an all-out shoot...
- Author:Colquhoun, KateSummary:
The fascinating story of the first ever railway murder
- Author:Livesey, Robert, Smith, A.G., Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSummary:
Avant l’arrivée du chemin de fer, le Canada était un immense territoire accidenté ne comptant qu’une faible densité de population largement disséminée. Au fur et à mesure de la mise en place des voies ferrées entre l’Atlantique et le...
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Author:Hautman, PeteSummary:Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.
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En voiture! C’est l’expression utilisée par les conducteurs de train pour dire « Tous à bord, le train se met en route ». Ce livre vous emmènera de Montréal à Los Angeles en vous faisant découvrir les villes et paysages des grands...
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Author:Brown, RonSummary:Ron Brown is Canada's leading literary authority on the history of Canada's railroads, particularly those now lost branches from the golden age of steam that once ran like veins and arteries throughout the country. This special four-...
- Author:Renehan, EdwardSummary:
Renehan draws upon previously unreleased documents to deliver the definitive biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th-century transportation tycoon who accumulated the largest private fortune in U.S. history.
- Author:Harvey, R. G.Summary:
A century of dealmaking and government misdeeds forms the backdrop of this entertaining account of sternwheelers, iron horses and mountain roads. Battling factions of rail builders crossed many a line in the sand as they carved up both...
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Author:Wishinsky, FriedaSummary:"An old Canadian flyer sled in the attic of Emily's new house transports eight-year-old Emily and nine-year-old Matt to a series of thrilling adventures in the past. Here, the sled takes the inquisitive pair to an old train...
- Author:Murphy, JimSummary:
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America.
