Promoters and Politicians: The North-Shore Railways in the History of Quebec, 1854-85

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The history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec. Constructed in the fifteen years following Confederation, the North Shore and the Montreal Colonization Railways reinforced Quebec's integration into a transcontinental unit. Yet bankruptcy of both companies in 1875 forced the provincial government to assume ownership of the railways and to shoulder a financial...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0802053777

ISBN13:9780802053770

Release Date:January 1978

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:193 Pages

Related Subjects

History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Transportation

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