Railways of Canada (Atlas of Canada, 1st Edition)
By 1904 the rail lines reaching into British Columbia and the Yukon were still a patchwork of competing companies, and this sheet from the Atlas of Canada 1st Edition sorts out who ran what. Railway lines print in solid black, while colour tints show the territory tributary to each system, the ground where one company’s stations sat closer than any rival’s. The Mackenzie & Mann System claims the yellow. A blue overprint note adds corrections made after the original plates were engraved.
The statistical table is the part rail researchers linger over: mileage, rolling stock, receipts, cost of construction and cost of maintenance for the 1903–04 year, with some mileage figures carried forward to 1905 and Canadian totals given as of June 30, 1904. American systems running north across the border appear as well, though they held no ownership of Canadian lines.
Reproduced from Natural Resources Canada archival cartography. Map Shop finishes it as paper, laminated, mounted to foam core, railed, or framed in black or walnut molding.

