Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program
This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot's heart-stirring song, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," to readers young and old.
The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada's centennial year and it has been a classic ever since. It eloquently describes the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway -- "an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea" -- a great feat of nation building that changed Canada forever for good and for ill, as in the process many people died and were dispossessed of their land.
Highly acclaimed, award-winning illustrator Ian Wallace brings the song to visual life with his sweeping landscapes and evocative portrayals of the people who lived the building of the railroad -- from the financiers in the east to First Nations people across the country to the thousands of navvies themselves, many of whom came from as far away as China.
| ISBN: | 9780888999535 |
| Publication date: | 4th November 2010 |
| Author: | Gordon Lightfoot |
| Illustrator: | Ian Wallace |
| Publisher: | Groundwood Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 56 pages |
| Genres: |
History Transport Educational: History |