|
|
Title: |
Until We Meet Again: Scouting for the CPRs Crowsnest Line - 1891 |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Jan Krijff |
| ISBN10-13: |
1989467466 : 9781989467466 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
254x203mm |
| Pages: |
314 |
| Weight: |
.700 Kg. |
| Published: |
Granville Island Publishing - January 2023 |
| List Price: |
16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
|
| Subjects: |
History of the Americas : Travel & holiday |
| It is Amsterdam, October of 1891. Karel Boissevain, the son of a successful shipowner, suffers from severe asthma, and is persuaded by his doctor to leave the Netherlands for the fresh air of Canada. Accompanied by one of his sisters, Heleen, they board a luxury steam liner to Montreal before taking a train to Alberta, where Karel will begin work with a CPR survey crew during a cold winter in Crowsnest Pass. The siblings stay in touch with their family from across the Atlantic, swapping stories of family business and letters of support. arel has also left behind his fiance, Wil de Vos. This devastating and intensely emotional period is captured with great feeling and honesty in their letters. The future remains uncertain for all, but their connections are unbroken. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Introduction; All the Way to Canada!; Our Land of Promise; To the Far North-West on Velvet Couches; Last Town on the Rail Line; How Heleen Meets the Doctor in Pincher Creek; Stake-Marker in the Crowsnest; Forty Miles through the Snow; Our Plan in Disarray!; To a Convent and Dancing in Edmonton; The Benevolence of Bigwigs; Reference to Volume 2; Images List; Archive Inventory List; Bibliography; Index. |
| Reviews: |
|
"Until We Meet Again is a treasure chest with many hidden jewels awaiting the patient reader: the story of a long-distance romance in the age of postage stamps and letters, of a cooperative sibling partnership beyond the outer edge of Canadian settlement, and of the detailed survey work required in the construction of the CPR’s subsidiary, the Columbia and Kootenay Railway. What makes this story particularly intriguing for me is that one of my heroes exerts his powerful influence on Karel’s advancement: William Cornelius Van Horne, who became General Manager and later, President of the CPR as it was being pushed westward towards the Rockies." -- Review from The British Columbia Review by Walter Volovsek, Castlegar historian, author of A Railway from Nowhere to Nowhere (2002)
|
|
|
Item added to 
.png "Click here for catalogues")
