Excerpt from In the Canadian Bush Don't take anything but what you absolutely need had been the chief engineer's parting instructions to me, in the year 1909, at the head office of the Canadian Northern Railway in Toronto. This advice appeared to be well grounded as I stepped out of the comfortable train on to the siding, where there were only a few wooden Shanties and some railway cars used as huts. This was the camp, Selwood Junction, whence a railroad was being constructed to Gowganda Junction (of silver mine fame), and from there to Port Arthur on Lake Superior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.