Winner · Governor General's Literary Awards 1971
The Last Spike
by Pierre Berton
1971 book by Pierre Berton
In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years exactly half the time stipulated in the contract.
Synopsis from Open Library.
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