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This is an account of the development of Canadian industry. Myers lays bare the corruption,
swindling, land deals, bribery that are the basis of canadian history. The heroes of other
history books come out looking quite different.
The Canadian Pacific Railway, Hudson’s Bay Company, Lord Selkirk, John A MacDonald, Laurier – All fall under Myers’s scrutiny, and the facts he records about them are startling. details
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