Pierre Berton, The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971), 16-23, quote 19.
Pierre Berton, The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific (New York: Knopf, 1972), 252.
Berton, Last Spike, 23-29, 44, 89.
Hudson, Plains Country Towns, 48.
Hudson, Plains Country Towns, 44-47, 74-78.