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Robert D. Turner

Robert D. Turner has been researching, photographing and writing about transportation history for over forty years. His photos have been widely published and he has written hundreds of articles and reviews. The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers is his eighteenth book. Turner has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Canadian Railroad Historical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Association for State and Local History’s Award of Merit. A retired heritage consultant and a curator emeritus at the Royal British Columbia Museum, Turner has travelled widely around the world photographing The Last Steam Railways and early industries while documenting the people, places and stories of this disappearing history and culture. He lives in Victoria, BC.

Books by Robert D. Turner

The Last Steam Railways

Volume 1: The People's Republic of China

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Deep and Sheltered Waters

The History of Tod Inlet

by (author) David R. Gray
foreword by Nancy J. Turner & Robert D. Turner

The Klondike Gold Rush Steamers

A History of Yukon River Steam Navigation

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Logging by Rail

The British Columbia Story

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Steam on the Kettle Valley 2E

A Railway Heritage Remembered

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Steam Along the Boundary

Canadian Pacific, Great Northern and the Great Boundary Copper Boom

by (author) Robert D. Turner & J.S. David Wilkie

The Thunder of Their Passing

A Tribute to the Denver & Rio Grande and the Cumbres & Toltec Railroads

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Those Beautiful Coastal Liners

The Canadian Pacific's Princess

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Sternwheelers & Steam Tugs

An illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's B.C. Lake and River Service

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Vancouver Island Railroads

by (author) Robert D. Turner

The Sicamous & the Naramata

Steamboat Days in the Okanagan

by (author) Robert D. Turner

Steam on the Kettle Valley

A Railway Heritage Remembered

by (author) Robert D. Turner

West of the Great Divide

The Canadian Pacific Railways First Century in B.C.

by (author) Robert D. Turner

The Pacific Empresses

An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific's Trans-Pacific Ocean Liners

by (author) Robert D. Turner

The Pacific Princesses

An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Pacific Fleet on the Northwest Coast

by (author) Robert D. Turner