Rivers and Rails: Central Alberta’s Transcontinental Railways

Edmonton and District Historical Society

2014

Non-Fiction: History

CDN: $19.95

Rivers and Rails describes the railway bridges in Edmonton which were built between 1897 and 1947 as well as the steel bridges built on the main lines of the two transcontinental railways which ran through Edmonton from the Alberta-Saskatchewan border to the east boundary of Jasper National Park. It is richly illustrated with period photographs, maps and line drawings.

This volume is the first in a series of numbered occasional papers to be published by the Edmonton and District Historical Society, a chapter of the Historical Society of Alberta. The book is distributed by Audreys Books in Edmonton (www.audreys.ca).

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