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Title: Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Pennington, Myles, b. 1814
Subjects: Railroads -- Canada Canals -- Canada
Publisher: Toronto : Williamson & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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om attending, as also of nearly3,000 warm-hearted workingmen, I feel, as I have a right tofeel, very proud indeed; I shall ever treasure this handsomedocument as a precious record of the good-will of my fellow-labourers in an arduous undertaking, and as evidence of theexistence, between all classes of the Companys servants, of thatspirit of unanimity and cordiality which is so indispensable tosuccess in railway working. My gratification at receiving sonumerously signed and so handsomely decorated an address, too,is not a little increased when-1 call to mind that the signaturesit bears are not those only of persons from every parish andtownship on the line of the Grand Trunk from Eiviere du Loupto Sarnia and London, but that the United States also are rep-resented in it, for I trust to be able to recognize in its amplepages many familiar names from Maine, Vermont and NewHampshire in the East, and Michigan in the West. My appre-ciation of the value I place upon this handsome testimonial
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Testimonials and Presentations. 125 cannot be better expressed than in the words you, Mr. Elliott, havejust used in presenting it to me, when sj)eaking of the price tobe put on the esteem of ones fellowmen. It will ever be morehighly prized by me than gold and precious stones. The address is handsomely bound in morocco silver mountedand is inscribed: PRESENTED TO WALTER SHANLY, BY Three Thousand Men of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. June, 1862. IN MEMORIAM OF THE LATE W. K. MUIR OF DETROIT. Mr. Muirs name has been frequently mentioned in thesepages, and always in terms of appreciation and esteem. Whenhis death was announced I sent the following letter—dated June24th, 1892—to the Toronto Globe, and reproduce it here as asincere, if inadequate, tribute to his memoiy : As an old officer who served under Mr. Muir whenthat gentleman was general manager of the Great WesternEailway of Canada, I cannot allow the sad event of his death topass without offering a humble but since

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