Thomas Rawlings: The Confederation of the British North American Provinces; Their Past History and Future Prospects; including also British Columbia & Hudson’s Bay Territory; with a Map and Suggestons in Reference to the True and Only Practicable Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

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Thomas Rawlings : The Confederation of the British North American Provinces; Their Past History and Future Prospects; including also British Columbia & Hudson’s Bay Territory; with a Map and Suggestons in Reference to the True and Only Practicable Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, London, 1865

Recent green cloth, flat spine with gilt text, endpapers renewed. , Early and final with some browning; otherwise a very good copy, plates and map are clean., 4to, P. (4), title, printer’s imprint, dedication, blank, preface v-vi, contents vii-xi, blank, 1-244, (4)., Complete with large folding map and 4 plates of city views, two of Victoria, one of St. Paul, MN, and an American view.

Rawlings was a persistant and enthousiastic supporter of an all-Canadian transcontinental railway route through the Rockies. The map shows his proposal, which advocates a route that avoids Quebec City and Ottawa and, traveling through Southern Ontario into the United States, passes south of Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, returning to British-Canadian lands in the future province of Saskatchewan through to Ft. Edmonton, passing through the Rockies at Leather Pass (north of Kicking-Horse Pass) and meeting the Pacific well to the north of New Westminster (future Vancouver). All shipments from England would arrive either to an American port—such as Boston or Portland—and be transferred by rail into Canada, or to Quebec City, which would not be connected to a rail line. The book discusses the socio-political and economic situation of each of the existing colonies and provinces, as well as of the northern States and of the existing railway system. , Sabin 68006; Waterson 128.

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