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The Kettle Valley Railway - Info Page 1

 


INDEX:
Page 1: Reference Books
Page 2: Related Videos
Page 3: Misc. Sources
Page 4: Museums & Societies

  REFERENCE BOOKS:

Here are some reference books that I have found that are either about or contain reference to the Kettle Valley Railway... If I have missed any or if you know of a new book on the market please let me know so that I can include it here.

  • Burrows, Roger G.
    Railway Mileposts: British Columbia. Vol. II: The Southern Routes from the Crowsnest to the Coquihalla.
    1984. Railway Milepost Books, North Vancouver, BC

  • Doeksen, Gerry
    Kettle Valley Railway. Railways of Western Canada. Vol. I. Second Edition.
    1995. Montrose, BC

  • Garden, J.F.
    Nicolas Morant's Canadian Pacific
    1192. Footprint Publishing, Revelstoke, BC

  • Gibbon, John Murray
    Steel of Empire - The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific
    1935. McCelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON

  • Hill, Beth
    Exploring the Kettle Valley Railway.
    1989. Polestar Press, Winlaw, BC

  • Hope, Jim
    Canadian Pacific in the Okanagan and Kootenay Valleys of British Columbia. Last Days of Steam.
    1989. BRMNA, Calgary, AL
    BRMNA Webpage with ordering info

  • Hope, Jim
    Canadian Pacific in the Okanagan and Kootenay Valleys of British Columbia. The Early Years of Diesels.
    1992. BRMNA, Calgary, AL
    BRMNA Webpage with ordering info

  • Hope, Jim
    Those Beautiful 'C' Liners
    1986. LPD Publishing, Vancouver, BC

  • Hungry Wolf, Adolf
    Canadian Railway Scenes, No. 1.
    1983. Good Medicine Books, Skookumchuck, BC

  • Kennedy, W. G.
    Canadian Pacific in Southern British Columbia, The Boundary Subdivision.
    1986. BRMNA, Calgary, AL.
    BRMNA Webpage with ordering info

  • Lamb, W. Kaye.
    History of the Canadian Pacific Railway
    1997. MacMillian Publishing Co., New York, NY

  • Langford, Don and Sandra
    Cycling the Kettle Valley Railway.
    Second Edition1997. Rocky Mountain Books, Calgary, AL
    Webpage with updates to the book.

  • Lewis, C. Donald
    Rail Canada-Diesel Paint Schemes of the CPR
    Second Edition 1998. LPD Publishing, Vancouver, BC

  • Lewis, C. Donald
    Steam In Canada-Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives
    1984. LPD Publishing, Vancouver, BC

  • Matheson, George
    The Vader's Caboose.
    1994. Kettle Valley Publishers, Lumby, BC

  • Riegger, Hal
    Speeder on the Carmi Sub.
    Canadian Rail, No. 288, January 1976
    Canadian Railroad Historical Association
    Montreal, PQ

  • Riegger, Hal
    The Kettle Valley and Its Railways.
    1981. Pacific Fast Mail, Edmonds, WA
    out of print
    Additions and corrections to the book by Dave Wilkie

  • Sanford, Barrie
    McCulloch's Wonder, The Story of the Kettle Valley Railway.
    1977. Whitecap Books, West Vancover, BC

  • Sanford, Barrie
    The Pictorial History of Railroading in British Columbia.
    1981. Whitecap Books, West Vancover, BC

  • Sanford, Barrie
    Steel Rails and Iron Men, A Pictorial History of the Kettle Valley Railway.
    1990. Whitecap Books, West Vancover, BC

  • Silversides, Brock V.
    Waiting for the Light, Early Mountain Photography in British Columbia
    1995. Fifth House Publishers, Calgary, AB

    Excellent photography, many of early railroads. Especially check out page 59 for a great shot of the wooden truss bridges crossing the Nicola River.

  • Smuin, Joe
    Canadian Pacific's Kettle Valley Railway.
    1997. BRMNA, Calgary, AL
    BRMNA Webpage with ordering info

  • Turner, Robert D.
    Railroaders, Recollections from the Steam Era in British Columbia.
    1986. Province of British Columbia, Victoria, BC

  • Turner, Robert D.
    West of the Great Divide. An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia 1880-1986.
    1987. Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC

  • Turner, Robert D.
    The Sicamous and the Naramata. Steamboat Days in the Okanagan.
    1995. Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC
    Check out the webpage on the book and print out an orderform

  • Turner, Robert D.
    Steam on the Kettle Valley, A Railway Heritage Remembered.
    1995. Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC
    Check out the webpage on the book and print out an orderform

  • White, John
    Driving the Kettle Valley
    1996. Self Published,
    344 Oxford Dr. Port Moody, BC V3H 1T2
    e-mail: jwhite@planeteer.com

    See Page 3: Misc. Sources for a review of John's excellent book and ordering info.

 




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