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A Thousand Blunders : The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia
Frank Leonard
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In A Thousand Blunders, Frank Leonard looks at why the ?Road of a Thousand Wonders? failed to live up to the expectations forecast by company president Charles M. Hays and other senior managers. Not only was the railway built through a sparsely settled region, which generated little immediate traffic, but its economic difficulties were also compounded by the numerous mistakes made by managers at all levels: for example, their failure to respond adequately to labour shortages caused serious delays and prevented the company from proving Prince Rupert as an effective alternative harbour before World War I broke out. For this book, Frank Leonard had access to a wealth of original documents, among them the GTP legal department files, providing him with insights into the decisions that formed the basis for policies in townsites and on Indian reserves. A Thousand Blunders is a provocative account of one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history. Richly detailed and thoroughly documented, it makes an important contribution to the fields of railway and business history, as well as to the study of the history of northern British Columbia.
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Contents
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Illustrations and Figures
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Preface
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Abbreviations
Page 11-11
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One: Introduction: 'A Tragedy Rather than Otherwise'
Page 12-26
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Two: 'In a Hole': Entry into British Columbia, 1902-12
Page 27-59
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Three: 'Banging Right through on a Straight Line': Construction
Page 60-100
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Four: 'Too Good or Too Fat for the Job': Labour Relations
Page 101-135
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Five: 'A Frail Little City': Prince Rupert
Page 136-173
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Six: 'A Hold-up Business': Acquisition of Indian Lands
Page 174-194
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Seven: In the Hollow of the Corporation's Hand': Prince George
Page 195-226
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Eight: 'For Pure Spite': Hazelton District
Page 227-252
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Nine: 'Grand Trafficker of Promises': Operations, 1914-19
Page 253-277
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Ten: Conclusion: 'The Tenderloin and the Hook'
Page 278-286
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Notes
Page 287-332
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Select Bibliography
Page 333-347
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Index
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Title
A Thousand Blunders
Subtitle
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia
Contributors
Frank Leonard
Publisher
UBC Press
Publication date
1995-01-01
Pages
ix, 344 p.
Print ISBN
9780774805322
eBook ISBN
9780774854252
LC Subjects
Railroads - British Columbia
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Northern - History.
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Chemins de fer - Colombie-Britannique (Nord) - Histoire.
Audience
Professional and scholarly
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