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Notes for Chapter OneThe Board of Railway Commissioners’ annual reports (1906 to 1937) were the main sourceof information for this chapter. House of Commons Debates were consulted for detailsabout parliamentary discussions and policy statements. Newspapers were also used asnoted in the text.1 The Ottawa Citizen, February 11, 1904,reported on the first hearing of the Boardof Railway Commissioners.2 The limitations of the Privy Council’s RailwayCommittee are discussed in W.T. Jackman’sEconomics of Transportation, p. 659–660, andKen Cruikshank’s Close Ties, p. 57–64.3 Two histories that describe the early transportationsystem in British North America andin the first years after Confederation areOscar D. Skelton’s The Railway Builders, andG.P. de T. Glazebrook’s A History ofTransportation in Canada, Volumes I and II.4 Accounts of the development of Canada’sfreight rate structure can be found inA.W. Currie’s Economics of CanadianTransportation, Ken Cruikshank’s CloseTies and W.T. Jackman’s Economicsof Transportation.5 Ken Cruikshank, Close Ties, p. 48.6 The Dictionary of Canadian Biography,Volume XIII, (1901–1910) describes A.G. Blair’spolitical and personal life. Mrs. Blair’s socialskills are mentioned in Sandra Gwyn’s ThePrivate Capital.7 Cruikshank, Close Ties, p. 65.8 Joseph Schull, Laurier, p. 422.9 Ibid, p. 441–444.10 Biographical information about Albert C.Killam and his successors on the Board ofRailway Commissioners can be found inAnnual Reports and in various editions ofWho’s Who in Canada.11 Cruikshank, Close Ties, p. 135.12 Jackman, Economics of Transportation,p. 688–9.13 Both A.W. Currie’s Economics of CanadianTransportation and Ken Cruikshank’s CloseTies deal at some length with various freightrate decisions.14 Cruikshank, p.151–3.15 Cruikshank, p.164.16 Cruikshank, p.186–9.17 Board of Railway Commissioners’ AnnualReport, 1925.18 A.W. Currie, p. 448–9.19 Donald MacKay, The People’s Railway,A History of Canadian National, p.114.20 John G. Diefenbaker, One Canada, Memoirsof the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker,p. 156.Chapter One cover photo:Grand Trunk Railway “Ten Wheeler” steam locomotive No. 986, 1900CSTM/CN00383327Chapter One — ALL A BOARD 1904 TO 1938