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Broun, Richard (Sir) (1801-1858) [info]. European and Asiatic intercourse via British Columbia, by means of a main through trunk railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Containing I. Correspondence with ministers and other proceedings on the subject since 1845. II. Memorandum placed in the hands of the Colonial minister, 9th April, 1858. III. Extracts from the evidence taken by the Committee on the Hudson's Bay Territory, 1857. IV. Appendix, containing notes, extracts, statistics, &c. V. Map of the railway. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1858.

Physical description: 58 p., illus., map.

Language: English

About Broun's proposal for a transcontinental railway and colonization project. In 1833 Broun was promoting a "line of direct elemental intercourse between Europe and Asia by route of the British North American possessions, and the systematic colonisation of the vacant crown territories over which it will pass" ( Dictionary of National Biography , vol. 2, page 1377).

Subject headings:

• Railroads