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The Railway Beat: A Century of Canadian Pacific Police Service by David Laurence Jones (Paperback, 2013)

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Canadian Pacific at its apex operated the most expansive and comprehensive transportation system the world has ever seen, before or since. Vast amounts of freight and multitudes of people, including some of the 20th century's most important and celebrated personalities, moved seamlessly back and forth on the North American continent and across the oceans to the far corners of the earth in the capable hands of a single, well-oiled administration. When the Canadian Pacific Railway was built in the early 1880s to connect the thriving cities of Eastern Canada with the fledgling communities on the West Coast of British Columbia, however, this first, tenuous lifeline of the wildly ambitious enterprise stretched across more than two thousand miles of rugged, nearly uninhabited wilderness -- with blanket authority or viable system of law enforcement. Initially the country's own red-coated mounted police force took up the challenge of protecting the men and women who accomplished the national dream of forging a link from sea to sea and beyond; but, inevitably, the responsibility for the security of people and goods on the -World's Greatest Transportation System- would fall to the Canadian Pacific itself and the private police force which grew up with the company. From its somewhat disreputable origins of ad-hoc groups of semi-automous armed watchmen and strike-breaking thugs organized at the local level to the fully-professional force created in 1913 by the CPR president himself, the stage was set for more than a century of Canadian Pacific Police Services to come. The quiet efficiency with which its officers have conducted themselves in their ongoing battles with fraud, theft, smuggling, bombings, murder and mayhem, and the degree to which they have managed to avoid controversy and public scrutiny, speak well for the men and women on the -Railway Beat.-

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Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
ISBN-10
192708315x
ISBN-13
9781927083154
eBay Product ID (ePID)
188905014

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Author
David Laurence Jones
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Issues, Services & Welfare
Type
Textbook

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Place of Publication
Markham
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations, Colour Illustrations, Maps
Author Biography
David Laurence Jones is manager of internal communications at Canadian Pacific Railway. A history graduate from Concordia University, he worked for fourteen years in the railway's corporate archives, researching and collecting stories and anecdotes about the CPR's rich heritage. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Date of Publication
19/12/2013
Country of Publication
Canada

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