History of railways in Canada/Bibliography

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Primary Sources

• Colmer, Joseph G. "Some Canadian Railway and Commercial Statistics," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 51, No. 1 (March 1888), 74-112.
• Fleming, Sandford. Report on the Intercolonial Railway Exploratory Survey (1865).
• Fleming, Sandford. Report on Surveys and Preliminary Operations on the Canadian Pacific Railway (1877).
• Innis, Harold. A., and A. R. M. Lower; Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1783-1885 University of Toronto Press, 1933.

Secondary Sources

• Baskerville, Peter. "Americans in Britain’s Backyard: The Railway Era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880," Business History Review 55 (1981): 314–36.
• Biggar, Emerson Bristol. The Canadian Railway Problem. 1917.
• Brown, Ron. The Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More. 1998.

An illustrated history of railway stations in Canada

• Bruce, Harry. The Pig that Flew: The Battle to Privatize Canadian National Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1997.
• Cameron, Douglas. The People's Railway: A History of Canadian National. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992.
• Carlos, Ann M., and Frank D. Lewis. "The Creative Financing of an Unprofitable Enterprise: The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 1853-1881." Explorations in Economic History 32, no. 3 (1995): 273-301.
• Currie, A. W. The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1957.

The standard history.

• Darling H. The Politics of Freight Rates. McClelland and Stewart, 1980.
• Due, John F. The Intercity Electric Railway Industry in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1966.
• Dunn, Samuel O. "The Failure of Government Ownership in Canada," The Journal of Political Economy 24, no. 6 (June 1916), 547-571.
• Eagle, J. A. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.
• Fleming, R. B. The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923 University of British Columbia Press, 1991.
• Fournier, Leslie T. Railway Nationalization in Canada: The Problem of the Canadian National Railways. 1937.
• Fournier, Leslie T. "The Canadian National Railway Versus the Canadian Pacific: A Comparative Study." The Journal of Political Economy 39, no. 3 (June 1931): 369-389.
• Freeman, Kenneth D., et al. The Growth and Performance of the Canadian Transcontinental Railways 1956-1981. 1987.
• Gibbon, John Murray. Steel of Empire: The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific. 1936.
• Heaver, T. D., and James C. Nelson. "Railway Pricing Under Commercial Freedom: The Canadian Experience." Journal of Economic Literature 16, no. 3 (September 1978), 1061-1062.
• Hertel, D. W. History of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees: Its Birth and Growth, 1887-1955. 1955.
• Hofsommer, Don L. Grand Trunk Corporation: Canadian National Railways in the United States, 1971-1992. 1995.
• Jackman, W. T. "Appraisal of Government Ownership and Operation of Railways in Canada," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 201, (January 1939): 175-184.
• Kaye, Lamb W. History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 1977.
• Leonard, Frank. A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia. University of British Columbia Press, 1996.
• Lewis, Frank D., and David R. Robinson. "The Timing of Railway Construction on the Canadian Prairies," The Canadian Journal of Economics 17, no. 2 (May 1984): 340-352.
• McLean, Simon J. "Canadian Railways and the Bonding Question." The Journal of Political Economy 7, no. 4 (September 1899): 500-542.
• McLean, S. J. "The Canadian Government and the Railway Problem." The Economic Journal 12, no. 47 (September 1902), pp. 403-415.
• den Otter, A. A. The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America. University of Toronto Press, 1997.
• Regehr, T. D. The Canadian Northern Railway: Pioneer Road of the Northern Prairies 1895-1918. Macmillan of Canada, 1976.
• Rountree, G. M. The Railway Worker: A Study of the Employment and Unemployment Problems of the Canadian Railways. 1936.
• Stevens, G. History of the Canadian National Railways. New York: Macmillan Company, 1973.
• Underwood, Jay. Built for War: Canada's Intercolonial Railway. 2006.

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• Weaver, R. Kent. The Politics of Industrial Change: Railway Policy in North America. 1985.
• Wilgus, William J. The Railway Interrelations of the United States and Canada. 1937.
• Willson, Beckles. The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal. 1915.

Tertiary Sources

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (1966-2006)

scholarly biographies of railway men who died by 1930

• Andreae, Christopher. Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada (1996).
• Baskerville, Peter. "Hickson, Sir Joseph," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
• Middleton, William D., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of North American Railroads Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Regehr, Theodore D. "Hays, Charles M." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.