. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . E DURING A PERIOD OF SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS; WITH CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF CANAL AND RAILWAY MEN—EARLY TRAM ROADS AND RAILWAYS—STEAMBOATS-AND OCEAN STEAMSHIPS—THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHAND ATLANTIC CABLE— CANADA AND ITS RAILWAYS, TRADE AND COMMERCE, WITH NUMEROUS INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES,
. Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce . E DURING A PERIOD OF SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS; WITH CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF CANAL AND RAILWAY MEN—EARLY TRAM ROADS AND RAILWAYS—STEAMBOATS-AND OCEAN STEAMSHIPS—THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHAND ATLANTIC CABLE— CANADA AND ITS RAILWAYS, TRADE AND COMMERCE, WITH NUMEROUS INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES, HUMOROUS ANDOTHERWISE, OF CANAL, COACH AND KAIL. MYLES PENNINGTON The oldest railway officer living, still in active service, aad first Goods Manager of the Preston and Wyre and North Staffordshire Railways of England, and first (Seneral Freight Agent, of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. ■ Now, mj- lads, you will see the day when mail coaches will g^o bv railway, and it will becheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to w^^lk on foot. — George Stephenso?i, iS2^. TORONTO: WILLIAMSON & CO, 1894 Entered according to Act ot Parliament of Canada, in the Office of the Minister ofAgriculture, by Williamson & Company, in the year one thousand eight hundredand ninety-four. HE 8G9G41. SIR JOSEPH HICKSON. SIR JOSEPH HICKSON, , LATE GENERAL MANAGEROF THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA, ^hie SBork is ^eiicateii, WITH FEELINGS OF ESTEEM AND ADMIRATION, BY HIS HUMBLE SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. Toronto, Canada, October, 1894. LIST OF PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. The Author opp. Title Sir Joseph Hickson . . . : . opp. Dedication. Hon. John Eoss . . . Contents. Sir Henry Tyler . . . . Introduction. S. P. Bidder 21 Sir James Allport . . . . . 57 Group of I860. Walter Shanly, Hem-y Bailey, James Hard- man and Myles Pennington . . . ... 81 Prince of Wales Medal—Victoria Bridge . 95 W^illiam Hendrie . . . . 105 John Shedden 107 C. J. Brydges 119 Thomas Swinyard .
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