The long summer continues: Part 2 of The Long Summer begins where Part 1 (from Volume 10, Issue 10) left off, at the beginning of the 20th century, when Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier captured the buoyant mood of Canadians when he declared that the century would belong to Canada.

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In these days of wonderful development," Laurier told the House of Commons in 1903, "it is our duty, immediate and imperative, to build a second transcontinental railway." With these words, he triggered Canada's biggest spending spree and the last great railway boom in which contractors like William Mackenzie and Donald Mann would challenge Van Home and the CPR, seemingly laying track into every backyard in the country. "Service was our motto," Mann said. "We had more stopping places in ten miles, I think, than any railway in the world." Trains were known to stop to deliver a ...

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