Name: The Railroader's Wife: Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (en Inglés)
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Author: Stevenson, Jane
ISBN: 9781894759434

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The Railroader's Wife: Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jane Stevenson

Editorial

Caitlin Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

196

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 17.8 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN

9781894759434

ISBN13

9781894759434

Categorías

Canadá
Diarios, correspondencia
Historia de américa
Trenes y ferrocarriles: interés general

The Railroader's Wife: Letters from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (en Inglés)

Jane Stevenson (Autor) · Caitlin Press · Tapa Blanda

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The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railroader Leslie Martin in 1912 and arrived later that year in Prince Rupert at the height of rock blasting and railroad building. Lonely for her family in Wisconsin, Bernice wrote frequent letters home in which she described in striking detail the machinery and mudslides, the weather and the wilderness, the local characters and the outrageous cost of supplies. She wrote of her frustration at the slow pace of the railway work and her happiness at an invitation to a social event many miles away. She lived in a tent at Kitselas, a hotel in Hazelton, a shack in the Bulkley Valley and a hand-hewn log cabin at Decker Lake. Bernice's letters span the two final years of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway track building and are neatly woven together by Jane Stevenson's well-researched narration. A stunning collection of photographs illustrates the enormous task of constructing a railway along the Skeena River, through the Bulkley Valley and on to Burns Lake. Bernice travelled to a land her friends and family could not imagine, where she experienced the challenges and joys of the Canadian western frontier and witnessed the construction of the truly "Grand" Trunk Pacific Railway, until the last spike was driven near her home early in the spring of 1914.