The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 (82 page)

  95.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 6, Stephen to Tupper, Jan. 24, 1884.

  96.
Leader
, June 7, 1883.

  97.
Hansard, 1885, p. 2618.

  98.
See Sessional Paper No. 31A for 1884, which gives Stephen’s holdings in 1883 and 1884.

  99.
Stephen Papers, Macdonald to Stephen, Nov. 20, 1883.

100.
Preston, pp. 171–172.

101.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 6, Stephen to Tupper, Jan. 24, 1884.

102.
Ibid.

103.
Sentinel
, Dec. 15, 1883.

104.
Quoted in
Globe
, Aug. 10, 1883.

105.
Van Horne Letterbook, No. 1, Van Horne to Egan, Feb. 19, 1883.

106.
Ibid.
, No. 4, Van Horne to Egan, Feb. 2, 1884.

107.
Ibid.
, Feb. 4, 1884.

108.
Ibid’.
, No. 1, Van Horne to W. Horder, April 9, 1883.

109.
Ibid.
, No. 4, Van Horne to John Ross, Feb. 23, 1884.

110.
Ibid.
, No. 5, April 15, 1884.

111.
Ibid.
, Van Horne to Egan, April 28, 1884.

112.
Globe
, Feb. 1, 1884.

113.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 268, Stephen to Macdonald, Feb. 10, 1884.

114.
Globe
, Feb. 9, 1884.

115.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 129, Hickson to Macdonald, Feb. 7, 1884.

116.
Ibid.,
enclosure, Grand Trunk Railway Company
, Correspondence between the Company and the Dominion government respecting advances to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

117.
Globe
, Feb. 14, 1884.

118.
Ibid.
, Feb. 2, 1884.

119.
Ibid.
, Feb. 16, 1884.

120.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 268, Stephen to Macdonald, Feb. 10, 1884.

121.
Globe
, Feb. 29, 1884.

122.
Ibid.
, Feb. 26, 1884.

123.
Gibbon, p. 261.

124.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 5, Van Horne to Mitchell, April 21, 1884.

125.
Quoted in Waite,
Arduous Destiny
, from H. H. Smith Papers, Macdonald to Smith, March 3, 1884.

126.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 19, Van Horne to Davin, Nov. 9, 1886.

127.
Ibid.
, No. 20, Van Horne to W. Whyte, Feb. 7, 1887.

128.
Macdonald Papers, Vol. 288.

129.
Ibid.

130.
Ibid.

131.
Ibid.

132.
Ibid.
, Van Horne to Macdonald, Jan. 28, 1889.

133.
Ibid.
, Vol. 272, Stephen to Macdonald, July 29, 1890.

134.
Ibid.
, Vol. 269, Stephen to Macdonald, Feb. 27, 1884.

135.
Globe
, March 8, 1884.

136.
Stephen Papers, Macdonald to Stephen, Nov. 26, 1883.

137.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 6, Macdonald to Tupper, June 28, 1884.

Chapter Seven

    1.
Sentinel
, Oct. 31, 1884.

    2.
Armstrong Manuscript, p. 133.

    3.
Sentinel
, June 29, 1884.

    4.
Brown Papers, “Trip to Pacific Coast by Canadian Pacific Railway, 1888,” pp. 4–5.

    5.
Armstrong Manuscript, p. 151.

    6.
Macoun,
Autobiography
, p. 216.

    7.
Sentinel
, Jan. 14, 1885.

    8.
Ibid.
, Dec. 26, 1884.

    9.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 2, Van Horne to Egan, June 20, 1883.

  10.
Ibid.
, Van Horne to James Ross, Sept. 10, 1883.

  11.
Ibid.
, No. 3, Van Horne to Harry Abbott, Sept. 21, 1883.

  12.
Ibid.
, No. 2, Van Horne to John Ross, Sept. 2, 1883.

  13.
Armstrong Manuscript, pp. 145–147.

  14.
Globe
, May 14, 1884.

  15.
Armstrong Manuscript, p. 147.

  16.
Ibid.
, p. 139.

  17.
Ibid.
, pp. 141–142.

  18.
Globe
, May 15, 1884.

  19.
Sentinel
, Nov. 8, 1884.

  20.
Ibid.
, Nov. 3, 1884.

  21.
Gard, pp. 181–182.

  22.
Parliamentary Debates
, Fourth Session, Vol. 2, p. 745.

  23.
Free Press
, Manitoba, Oct. 3, 1884.

  24.
Roberts, p. 57.

  25.
Bone, p. 70.

  26.
Roberts, p. 79.

  27.
Van Buskirk Letters, Van Buskirk to his mother, June 17, 1884.

  28.
Ibid.
, Aug. 2, 1884.

  29.
Roberts, p. 57.

  30.
Globe
, Aug. 22, 1884.

  31.
Tupper Papers, Vol. 6, Schreiber to Tupper, Sept. 29, 1884.

  32.
Roberts, p. 55.

  33.
Tyler Papers, Tyler to wife, June 28, 1885.

  34.
Buckingham and Ross, pp. 609–610.

  35.
Steele
, Forty Years in Canada,
p. 195
.

  36.
Ibid.
, p. 187.

  37.
Roberts, p. 69.

  38.
Globe
, June 24, 1884.

  39.
Stevens
, An Engineer’s Recollections,
p. 12
.

  40.
Michael Bliss.

  41.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 6, Van Home to Minister of Railways and Canals, May 19, 1884.

  42.
Norris Crump, Chairman of the Board, to the author.

  43.
Carter, pp. 13031–13032.

  44.
Herald
, Calgary, Nov. 15, 1884.

  45.
MacBeth, p. 102.

  46.
Armstrong Manuscript, p. 179.

  47.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 4, Van Horne to G. T. Breackenridge, Feb. 8, 1884.

  48.
Ibid.
, No. 6, Van Horne to Beatty, June 7, 1884.

  49.
Ibid.
, No. 1, Van Horne to Egan, April 9, 1883.

  50.
Ibid.
, No. 4, Van Horne to Mrs. M. E. Galbraith, Dec. 25, 1883.

  51.
Ibid.
, No. 4, Van Horne to Egan, Jan. 6, 1884.

  52.
Ibid.
, No. 6, Van Horne to George Purvis, July 14, 1884.

  53.
Ibid.

  54.
Vaughan, p. 139.

  55.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 5, Van Horne to W. Why te, April 28, 1884.

  56.
Ibid.
, No. 6, Van Horne to John Lowe, May 14, 1884.

  57.
Ibid.
, No. 7, Van Horne to Henry Beatty, July 18, 1884.

  58.
I bid.
, Van Horne to Egan, July 19, 1884.

  59.
Ibid.
, No. 5, Van Horne to H. B. Ledyard, March 26, 1884.

  60.
Ibid.
, No. 7, Van Horne to Ledyard, July 26, 1884.

  61.
Thompson and Edgar, p. 143.

  62.
Vaughan, p. 142.

  63.
Collard, p. 253.

  64.
MacBeth, p. 144.

  65.
Vaughan, p. 138.

  66.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 5, Van Horne to J. J. C. Abbott, March 15, 1884.

  67.
Ibid.
, No. 6, Van Horne to Beatty, July 5. 1884.

  68.
Vaughan, p. 109.

  69.
Told to Raymond Hull by Van Horne’s valet. Hull to H. T. Coleman, March 27, 1969.

  70.
Vaughan, p. 148.

  71.
Collard, p. 252.

  72.
Vaughan, p. 152.

  73.
Gazette
, Port Moody, Dec. 22, 1883.

  74.
Ibid.
, Jan. 5, 1884.

  75.
Ibid.
, Aug. 16, 1884.

  76.
Ibid.
, Aug. 9, 1884.

  77.
Ibid.

  78.
Quoted in
Gazette
, Port Moody, Aug. 16, 1884.

  79.
Ibid.

  80.
Van Horne Letterbooks, No. 8, Van Horne to A. W. Ross, Nov. 21, 1884.

  81.
Marcus Smith Papers,
PAC
, Letterbook No. 4, Smith to Van Horne, April 28, 1884.

  82.
Ibid.
, Smith to R. Brock, Oct. 13, 1884, and Feb. 19, 1885.

  83.
Ibid.
, Smith to David Oppenheimer, Aug. 1, 1884.

  84.
Ibid.
, Smith to Brock, Oct. 13, 1884.

  85.
Marcus Smith Papers,
PABC
, Diary, Sept. 4, 1884.

  86.
Inland Sentinel,
Aug. 14, 1884
.

  87.
Van Hornet Letterbooks, No. 14, Van Horne to Stephen, Nov. 24, 1885.

  88.
Ibid.

  89.
Ibid.

  90.
Pope,
Memoirs
, p. 75.

  91.
Hansard, 1882, p. 955.

  92.
Marcus Smith Papers,
PABC
, Smith to Joseph Hunter, May 24, 1885.

  93.
Marcus Smith Papers,
PAC
, Letterbook No. 7, Smith to Brock, Aug. 11, 1893.