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The history of British Columbia's transportation systems north of the Canadian National Railway's mainline may not be well known—but it certainly is colourful.

The sparsely populated southern Interior of British Columbia was rich in resources and ripe for settlement in the late 1800s.

A century of dealmaking and government misdeeds forms the backdrop of this entertaining account of sternwheelers, iron horses and mountain roads.