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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:51 AM -0700
Building the CPR Pathfinder 
Pathfinder for Building the Canadian Railway
(Pathfinders feature online resources combined with McMath library resources)

        ONLINE RESOURCES

Canadian Pacific Railway
Building the railway in BC.

Canadian Pacific Railway  (Canadian Confederation site)
The importance of the railway construction to Confederation.

Building the National Railways, 1851-1885
Deals with early railways and then the CPR.  Includes information on the Pacific Scandal and Chinese labourers.

Canadian Pacific Railway  (Wikipedia)
Focus on sections 1.1 and 1.2 for this assignment, though you may wish to read further for additional background.

Canadian Pacific Railway - A brief history
Includes links to the CPR Archives and photo gallery.

Canadian Pacific Railway
Provides history and information about the daily life of the navvies, or workers, who built the railway.

Rogers Pass - A history of the railroad
Focus is on railroad history and construction in the Rockie Mountains.

Images Canada - Images of railroad construction in Canada
Thumbnail images for expanding.  Most include captions and minimal information.

Building of the Railway
Focus is on Chinese workers.

Chinese Canadian History
The first section of this extensive site is on the Chinese who came to work on the railway.

The CPR  (Scattering of Seeds)
Provides a summarized history of the construction of the CPR.


        BOOKS IN McMATH LIBRARY

385 HOD                 The kids book of Canada's railway : and how the CPR was built
385.0971 WIL            Railways in Canada : the iron link
625.1 GRE               Chief engineer: life of a nation builder - Sanford Fleming
971.009 MAY             William Van Horne
971.05 BER              The railway pathfinders
971.05 BER              Steel across the plains
971.05 LIV              The railways
971.05 NEL              From the Atlantic to the Pacific: Canadian expansion, 1867-1909


SEE ALSO        Developing the Canadian West

• General history of Canada books in 971
• your textbooks
• the Canadian Encyclopedia online  (accessible from the library homepage)
• Check out biographies of some of the key people using the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online link from the library homepage.

Created and maintained by Ms. B. Knoepfel (Teacher-Librarian), McMath Secondary School.
Updated March 2007.