Author: J. W. C. Haldane

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Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781330833636

Excerpt from 3800 Miles Across Canada The manner in which my works on Engineering, referred to at the end of this volume, have been received by all classes of readers at home and abroad, has encouraged me to prepare another, entitled 3,800 miles across Canada, which is written in a popular and attractive style throughout. To enable me to attain this desirable object, I recently traversed that country to Vancouver Island, remaining for various periods at the numerous places of interest referred to in the following pages. During my visit to the Dominion, I gathered as much special information as possible regarding its immense field for the industrious and enterprising; its boundless resources for trade and commerce; its steamship connections with Japan, China, Australia, the British Isles, and other parts of the world; its people; its scenery; its engineering features; incidents of travel, and, indeed, everything else from every point of view which could help to make this volume useful and interesting to readers. As I had the honour of making the tour under the kind auspices of the Governor-General - Lord Aberdeen - and other influential people in Canada, every source of trustworthy knowledge was thrown open to me, of which I fully availed myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.