Sailing Seven Seas: A History of the Canadian Pacific Line

by Peter Pigott

Book Overview

Under Canadian Pacific's red-and-white-checkered flag, the company's founders, George Stephen and William C. Van Horne, created a rail-sea service from Liverpool to Hong Kong. Boasting sternwheelers, Great Lakes bulk carriers, ferries, and luxurious ocean-going liner leviathans, the Canadian Pacific shipping line sailed around the globe. In both world wars the entire fleet served gallantly as Allied troop carriers. After the Second World War, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554887658
• ISBN13: 9781554887651
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"