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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
There are surprisingly few secondary books dealing with Canadian railway history available for the general reader. The admirable treatise by Dr S. J. M"Lean, "National Highways Overland," in vol. x of _Canada and Its Provinces_, is much the best. Trout, _The Railways of Canada_ (1871), and the article by T. C. Keefer in _Eighty Years"
Progress of British North America_ (1863), are useful for the early period, but are scarce. There is, however, a wealth of first-hand material--pamphlets, travellers" notes, company reports, Hansard debates, committee inquiries, and departmental returns. The largest collections of such material are to be found in the Parliamentary Library, Ottawa, the Library of the Department of Railways and Ca.n.a.ls, the Toronto Public Library, and the Library of Queen"s University, Kingston.
For progress from year to year since 1901, see Castell Hopkins, _The Canadian Annual Review_, vol. i _et seq_. See also, in this Series, _The Day of Sir John Macdonald_ and _The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier_.