The Railway King
Author | : Margaret Mayhew |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction in English |
ISBN | : 9780708818695 |
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Author | : Margaret Mayhew |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction in English |
ISBN | : 9780708818695 |
Author | : R. B. Fleming |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0774850787 |
During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada’s best known entrepreneurs. He spearheaded some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada during his lifetime – building enterprises that became the foundations for such major institutions as Canadian National Railways, Brascan, and the Toronto Transit Commission. He built a business empire that stretched from Montreal to British Columbia and to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil. It included gas, electric, telephone and transit utilities, railroads, hotels, and steamships as well as substantial coal mining, whaling, and timber interests. For a time Mackenzie also owned Canada's largest newspaper, La Presse. He accumulated an enormous personal fortune, but when he died in 1923, his estate was virtually bankrupt as a result of the dramatic collapse of his Canadian Northern Railway during the First World War. In an era when the entrepreneur has come to be seen as a media hero and when struggles about the role of state enterprise in the transportation and energy sectors consume public policy debate, it is ironic that Mackenzie is largely forgotten by all but a few historians and railway aficionados. He left no papers to guide biographers. After a decade of gathering and piecing together fragments from an immense array of sources, Rae Fleming has written the first biography of the man that the German press extolled as the “Railway King of Canada.” Mackenzie was wily, crafty, manipulative, and intimidating. Starting as a general contractor in Eldon Township in rural Ontario, he built a small fortune contracting for the CPR in the Selkirks in the 1880s and then moved on to bigger things. Along the way, he funded the first full-length documentary movie, was toasted by the House of Lords, received a knighthood from George V, and developed close friendships with the major politicians of his day, including Borden and Meighen. In a business biography intended as much for general readers as for a scholarly audience, Fleming offers a revisionist perspective on Mackenzie. He dispels the simplistic approach of those historians and journalists who have depicted Mackenzie and his partner Sir Donald Mann as melodramatic crooks who could have stepped out of the pages of Huckleberry Finn.
Author | : John Sargeant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780646107028 |
Author | : Philip John Greer Ransom |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Sargent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9781876249045 |
Author | : Clifford Dyment |
Publisher | : London : J.M. Dent |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Norman Cave |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Steam locomotives |
ISBN | : 9781876677381 |
Author | : Victorian Railways. Public Relations and Betterment Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Passenger trains |
ISBN | : |
Brochure with descriptions of 6 major trains in Victoria: Spirit of Progress, The Daylight, The Overland, Mildura Sunlight, The Gippslander and The Flier. Includes fares and timetables.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2094 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Stuart Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780522856996 |
Victoria was the first Australian colony to open a steam railway, in 1854, and for the rest of the 19th century it remained the continent's most advanced and intensive railway. Melbourne was Australia's first city to have suburban railways, which were also the first to be electrified, beginning in 1919. This book tells the story of the early railways opened in the wake of the gold rush to Ballarat and Bendigo, extravagantly engineered as none ever would be in the future. It then moves on to examine the role of railways in the development of the colony during the 19th century, when railway policy often dominated political discourse. Railway history both reflected and made Victorian history as a whole, especially during the boom and bust of the 1880s and 1890s. During the Clapp era of the 1920s and 1930s, Victorian railways projected an aura of sophisticated and style, whereas after World War II there was constant challenge and readjustment, as other transport modes became dominant. This culminated in a long crisis through the last decades of the 20th century, of which emerged a railway system radically restructured in almost every way. The colourful characters, political intrigues and enormous social impact of Victoria's railways, as well as their constantly changing and fascinating technology, are major themes of this book.