Trains of Recollection Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada: And Told to Arthur HawkesMacmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1924 - 340 páginas |
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Página 11 - GREAT God, what do I see and hear ! The end of things created ! The Judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated ! The trumpet sounds ! the graves restore The dead which they contained before ! Prepare, my soul, to meet him.
Página 128 - SIR, — His Majesty has thought proper to order a new commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not perceive your name.
Página 293 - On behalf of the Board, I would like to state that after inspection of the main arteries of the System, we find that the work undertaken has been well performed, and that the expenditures have been well applied. While the demands for capital expenditure on a System of such extent in a growing country, as the former Board stated, are never ending, yet it may now be said that the three groups of lines, until recently the Canadian National Railways, enter the consolidation in excellent physical condition...
Página 47 - You don't know their true inwardness till you go up and feel of them. To see Van Home get out of the car and go softly up the platform, you would think he was an evangelist on his way west to preach temperance to the Mounted Police. But you are soon undeceived. If you are within hearing distance you will have more fun than you ever had in your life before.
Página 44 - I would not take a hundred thousand dollars for it. It is framed and hangs in my brother's house in Waterville, Minnesota, where my nephews and nieces can see it.
Página 37 - All that is known of the region is that it would be impossible to construct this one section for the whole cash subsidy provided by the Canadian government for the entire...
Página 174 - ... it was very like what movie fans frequently see when they are about to observe some event which has recently taken place in a distant part of the world. The feature is heralded by the appearance of what looks like several sticks thrown into the air — all seemingly, without direction or intention, but presently falling into an ordered announcement which he who sits may read. That is how the Canadian Northern transcontinental system took shape. From a series of disconnected and apparently unconnectable...
Página 123 - In this map an attempt has been made to distinguish the general physical character of the country on the routes followed by different Explorers and Scientific Travellers. With notes. Scale of Statute miles, 50=1 inch. 24 x 17J. Coloured litho. 3666. Plan showing preliminary location of the Red Deer Irrigation Canal Tp* 31 to 34 — Rg8 2 to 5 — \V 5th M Notes.
Página 172 - So exquisite was his appreciation of word values that, though others might embody an intention in a series of paragraphs apparently beyond criticism, his mastery of precision and shade was such that he could clothe it in language which had the exactitude of a multiplication table and the clarity of a mirror.
Página 45 - Some infernal idiot has put a tunnel in there. I want you to go up and take it out.