'Peter Buchanan, London agent for the Great Western Railway of Canada' in D S Macmillan (ed), Canadian Business History. Selected studies, 1497-1971

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Deals with the building and financing of the Great Western Railway of Canada, promoted in 1845 at Hamilton to connect Niagara Falls to Windsor via Hamilton. Deals especially with its financing in London and details the nature of the role in this of Peter Buchanan as agent of the Railway