Includes index.

The builders -- A new nation -- Let's make a deal -- Settle your differences -- If you build it, they will come -- A train wreck -- Back on the rails -- Full steam ahead -- Across the sea, over the mountains -- Share the land -- The last spike -- Stops along the way -- Far and wide -- Brain teaser.

Discusses how the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) united Canada from coast to coast and how it helped shape Canada into the nation it is today.