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Автор: Frank Leonard
Название: Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia
ISBN: 9780774805520
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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ISBN-10: 0774805528
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 353
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 1996-01-01
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Airports,History of the Americas,Trains & railways: general interest, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation,HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-),TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History
Подзаголовок: The grand trunk pacific railway and northern british columbia
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In A Thousand Blunders, Frank Leonard looks at why the “Road of a Thousand Wonders” failed to live up to the expectations forecast by company president Charles M. Hays and other senior managers. Not only was the railway built through a sparsely settled region, which generated little immediate traffic, but its economic difficulties were also compounded by the numerous mistakes made by managers at all levels: for example, their failure to respond adequately to labour shortages caused serious delays and prevented the company from proving Prince Rupert as an effective alternative harbour before World War I broke out. For this book, Frank Leonard had access to a wealth of original documents, among them the GTP legal department files, providing him with insights into the decisions that formed the basis for policies in townsites and on Indian reserves. A Thousand Blunders is a provocative account of one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history. Richly detailed and thoroughly documented, it makes an important contribution to the fields of railway and business history, as well as to the study of the history of northern British Columbia.
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Illustration and Figures

Preface

Abbreviations

1 Introduction: “A Tragedy Rather than Otherwise”

2 “In a Hole”: Entry into British Columbia, 1902-12

3 “Banging Right through on a Straight Line”: Construction

4 “Too G

Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia, Frank Leonard