Sir Edward Watkin, British railway promoter and member of Parliament, looks back over thirty-five years of dealings with North America. He writes of the Grand Trunk Railway, the Hudson’s Bay territories, the politics that led to Canadian Confederation, American designs on the Maritime Provinces, and meetings with statesmen and with First Nations chiefs over land.
A first-hand source for historians of Canadian Confederation and nineteenth-century railway imperialism. Download the free EPUB.