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Author Cruikshank, Ken, 1957-

Title Close ties : railways, government and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933 / Ken Cruikshank
Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents Contents -- Figures and Maps -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Politics of Freight Rates -- 3 Public Money, Private Rights -- 4 Public Authority, Private Rights -- 5 Railways, Politics, and Administration -- 6 A Board of Arbitrators -- 7 A Question of Figures -- 8 Casualties of War -- 9 An Equilator Rather Than a Mathematical Equality -- 10 Regions of Regulation -- 11 Conclusion: The Limits of Regulation -- APPENDICES -- A: Chronology of Railway Freight Rate Regulation -- B: Statistics on Railway Freight Operations
NotesBibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada -- History
SUBJECT Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada fast
Kanada National Transportation Agency gnd
Subject Railroads and state -- Canada -- History
Railroads -- Freight -- Rates -- Canada -- History
TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- Pictorial.
TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
Railroads and state
Railroads -- Freight -- Rates
Spoorwegen.
Overheidsbeleid.
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773563049
0773563040