Gordon Lightfoot

This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot's heart-stirring song, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," to readers young and old. The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada's centennial year and it has been a classic ever since. It eloquently describes the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway - "an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea" - a great feat of nation building that changed Canada forever for good and for ill,...