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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2012
"And many are the dead men too silent to be real" is the closing line to Gordon Lightfoot's 1967 epic song "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" describing the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). It's well known that many lost their lives during the construction of the CPR (Berton 1970, 1971, Lavallee 1974).
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Citation: Alexander, Martin E. 2012. Recounting the wildfire-related fatalities experienced during the surveying of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1871. Forestory 3(1):41-42. [Forest History Society of Ontario Newsletter]
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- Canada
- Canadian Pacific Railroad
- fatalities
- fire death
- Lake Superior Region
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FRAMES Record Number: 13423