A Road for Canada
The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway
- Publisher
- Stanton Atkins & Dosil
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2012
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780980930405
- Publish Date
- Mar 2012
- List Price
- $19.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780973234671
- Publish Date
- May 2009
- List Price
- $39.95
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Description
A Road for Canada traces the history of the Trans-Canada Highway, from its origins, conceived more than a century ago as a wagon road, to its present-day status as a crucial artery linking Canada from ocean to ocean. Lavishly illustrated the book recounts the first attempts to cross Canada by car and tells the stories of the dreamers who persevered with their vision of a national road.
About the author
Daniel Francis is an historian and the author/editor of more than twenty books, including five for Arsenal Pulp Press: The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture , National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History, LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award), Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror and Imagining Ourselves: Classics of Canadian Non-Fiction. His other books include A Road for Canada, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade, Copying People: Photographing British Columbia First Nations 1860-1940, The Great Chase: A History of World Whaling, New Beginnings: A Social History of Canada, and the popular Encyclopedia of British Columbia. He is also a regular columnist in Geist magazine, and was shortlisted for Canada's History Pierre Berton Award in 2010. Daniel lives in North Vancouver, BC.
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Selling Canada
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
The Imaginary Indian
The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture
Seeing Reds
The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror
Far West
The Story of British Columbia
Imagining British Columbia
Land, Memory, and Place