Read The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881 Online
Authors: Pierre Berton
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Acknowledgements
All of the work for this book was done in the public libraries and archives of Canada, and I owe a debt of thanks to the cheerful and helpful staff of people across the country who gave so much of their time to me and to Mr. Norman Kelly, who was my able research assistant for eighteen months. The Public Archives of Canada, where so many of the manuscript sources listed below were consulted, offers unparallelled facilities to the researcher. The staffs of the Metropolitan Toronto Central Public Library, especially that of its reference section, deserve my special gratitude. So does Willard Ireland, British Columbia’s Chief Archivist, who placed so much material at my disposal at short notice and answered so many queries so efficiently. Mr. N. R. Crump, chairman of the board of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was good enough to facilitate Mr. Kelly’s transcontinental trip along the route of the railway and also my own at a later date and to put at our disposal various personnel to explain the technical problems of railway construction and to give expert advice on the relevant sections of the research. I owe particular thanks to my former secretary, Ennis Halliday Armstrong, and to her successor, Anne Michie, for the enormous amount of work involved in transcribing notes, preparing the manuscript, checking sources and quotations and searching out hundreds of books, pamphlets, official documents and court records. Mrs. Michie also prepared the Bibliography. Mr. Kelly’s notes were transcribed with great fortitude by Norma Carrier.
The manuscript, in an earlier draft, was given a professional reading by Professor Michael Bliss of the history department, University of Toronto, who made a great many valuable suggestions for changes, revisions and additions. I should also like to thank Dr. William Kilbourn, Dr. W. L. Morton, Norman Kelly, Major Courtney Bond and my wife, Janet, who all read the manuscript in one or more of its stages and who all made useful suggestions, many of which I was able to incorporate in the final draft. Longman’s, Green, Toronto, was kind enough to allow me to read
Tales of a Pioneer Surveyor
in manuscript; my thanks go to Alistair Hunter of that firm and to the co-author, Raymond Hull. H. Travers Coleman of the
CPR
and that company’s archivist, James C. Bonar, were both helpful to me. So was George Macgillivray, publisher of the Fort William
Times-Journal
and Mrs. Marian Childs of the Fort William Public Reference Library. Barrett McMullen was kind enough to provide me with information about his grandfather, George W. McMullen; additional information came from David Taylor, Managing Director of the Picton Historical Society, and from Dick and Janet Lunn, authors of “The History of Picton County.” Miss Penny Berton and Miss Pamela Berton both contributed special pieces of research to the book.