In mid 19th century Upper Canada, the race is on to open the interior and harvest the vast supplies of lumber for export. Samuel Zimmerman, a man with a boundless energy and knowledge is recruited to lead the building of a railway that has been envisioned for decades. The audacious plan is the brainchild of the unscrupulous entrepreneur George Bolton and his prot?g? nephew, D'Arcy Bolton. Together, they and a cast of charlatans and civic leaders...