Hosmer, Charles, 148
Hurd, Anna, 31–32, 34
Hurd, Erastus, 32
Hurd, Lucy Adaline (see Van Horne,
Lucy Adaline)
Illinois Central Railroad, 22, 198
Johnson, Pauline, 140
Joliet, Illinois, 14–17, 190, 195, 198,
199
Kipling, Rudyard, 104, 140
Knowlton, Henry, 22–23
Lacombe, Father Albert, 97–98
Langdon, R.B., 78
Laurentide Pulp and Paper
Company, 175–76, 183
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 122, 187, 191,
202
Macdonald, Sir John A., 69–71, 76,
88–93, 98, 112–13, 199, 200
Mackay, John, 124
Mackay, Senator Robert, 131
Mackenzie, Alexander, 10, 69
Mackenzie, William, 156, 181
Maxwell, Edward, 136, 182, 189
McClure, Samuel, 193
McInnes, Graham C., 149
McIntyre, Duncan, 71
McKinley, President William, 160,
204
Michigan Central Railroad, 23–24,
198
Minister’s Island, New Brunswick,
135–38, 145, 202
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie Railroad (The Soo Line),
113–15
Mitchell, John, 39, 47
Molson, Edith (see Van Horne,
Edith)
Montreal, Quebec, 72, 75, 127–28,
130–31, 134, 147–49, 186
Montreal’s Parks Commission, 188
Morrice, James Wilson, 149
Morse, Samuel, 14
Myers, Peter, 50, 55
Newman, Peter C., 131
Northern Pacific Railroad, 106
Onderdonk, Andrew, 71, 97, 104
Ottawa, Ontario, 88, 102
Pacific Scandal, 69, 200
Panic of 1893, 123, 187
Parker, Sir Gilbert, 140
Paterson, Robert T.G., 146
Pearson, Fred, 181
Plummer, J.H., 179
Pope, John Henry, 89, 105
Port Moody, British Columbia, 71,
73, 86–87, 104
Powell, John Wesley, 30
Price, Bruce, 100–02, 130
Quesada, Gonzalo de, 156
Railroads, American (see also indi vidual companies)
as business enterprises, 14
consolidation of, 63
expansion of, 14, 24
impact of, 14, 25
investment in, 69
technology of, 14
Riel, Louis, 91, 202
Rogers, Major A.B., 10, 75
Ross, James, 148, 150, 179, 181
Rosser, Thomas L., 74
Royal Commission on Insurance, 180
Ryan, Thomas, 161
Ryder, Albert, 149
St. Andrews, New Brunswick, 135,
147, 183, 191
St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern
Railroad, 42, 46, 55, 200
St. Louis, Missouri, 42, 200
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railway Company, 67, 70, 76
St. Paul, Minnesota, 52, 67
Saskatchewan (railway car), 99, 124,
196
Schreiber, Collingwood, 78, 89, 105
Secretan, J.J., 74, 79
Shaughnessy, Thomas George (later
Lord Shaughnessy), 64, 74, 91,
108–09, 116–17, 121, 124–25, 128
Shepard, David, 78
Sifton, Clifford, 122
Skinner, Thomas, 114, 120
Smith, Donald (later Lord
Strathcona), 9–10, 67, 70–71, 92,
95–96, 131
Soo Line (see Minneapolis, St. Paul &
Sault Ste. Marie Railroad)
Southern Minnesota Railroad, 47–54,
67
Spanish-American War, 154
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