Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition through Canada in 1872. Being a diary kept during a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the expedition of the Engineer-in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railways. By the Rev. George M. GrantDuring the summer of 1872, Grant served Sandford Fleming as secretary on an exploratory journey from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean in search of a route for a transcontinental railway. He kept a diary which he polished and published as Ocean to ocean. |
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