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Great Railway Collection of Pierre Burton’s
This book is a pictorial history of the railway building period from 1871 to 1885. It traces The National Dream and The Last Spike in 100,000 words, with 277 rare photographs, engravings, and political cartoons, This rare historic collection of North American railroads, on the Canada’s backbone, responsible for the formation of two nations. They went beyond the robber barons wealth creation as the powered the development and productivity of economies, as well as the communication democracy depends on. Both feature a decorated box covering. The books sleeve has served well in protecting the book and the records have also…
Description
This Pierre Burton Collection includes both:
• The Great Railway by Pierre Burton book published in 1972 by McClelland and Stewart
• The Sounds of the Great Canadian Railways record collection and documentation released in 1975
(the recorded reading made by Pierre Burton himself, complete with documentation)