Copyright, Canada, 1924.
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED.

PRINTED IN CANADA

To the multitude of Fellow-Workers who, during twenty-six years, loyally served the Canadian Northern and Canadian National Railways, this book is appreciatively inscribed.

THE CHAPTERS

Page
Introduction[ix]
I.Suggesting a typically Presbyterian background of Scottish migration to Canada[1]
II.Sketching early years of service at country and city stations near the Clyde[17]
III.Recalling Van Horne and the Canadian Pacific challenge to the Grand Trunk[35]
IV.Reviewing vanishing practices, including ticket scalping and fast freight lines[48]
V.Portraying scantily the lives of a poor prairie line and a beloved prairie town[61]
VI.Remembering when farming in the West was misunderstood, and land could not be sold[80]
VII.Telling how Manitoba struggled through an era of expansion and the war of Fort Whyte[97]
VIII.Recording the first encounter of Mackenzie and Mann, with mules for a stake[115]
IX.Beginning the story of the Canadian Northern as a pioneer line with a staff of thirteen[132]
X.Describing meetings of a traffic manager with Sioux Indians and sudden millionaires[148]
XI.Indicating several considerations which made Toronto the centre of a Transcontinental system[168]
XII.Offering explanations why luxurious ease does not distinguish living on a private car[190]
XIII.Recounting midwinter episodes of location and operation in empty country[207]
XIV.Reciting events, the Great War being chief, which destroyed the Canadian Northern[227]
XV.Speaking some truth about the difficulty of operating a railway for the nation[250]
XVI.Narrating several occurrences which made huge Canadian National deficits inevitable[269]
XVII.Shedding sidelights on unities of Canadian railway management during the War[296]
Appendix A[315]
Appendix B[332]

THE PORTRAITS

D. B. Hanna[Frontispiece]
Facing Page
Sir Donald Mann[68]
Sir William Mackenzie[68]
Sir William Van Horne[164]
E. W. Beatty[164]
A. J. Mitchell[244]
R. M. Horne-Payne[244]