CB Rail history “book-of-the-year”
Congratulations to Herb MacDonald, author of Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History (CBUP 2012) on winning the national book award of the Canadian Railroad History Association (CRHA).
The accompanying citation says the book “gives a fascinating and comprehensive examination or railways and their critical role in moving resources and people … fully cited and extremely well illustrated….”
The award recognizes and honours an individual whose endeavours in the previous year have contributed significantly to the recording and/or preservation of artifacts of historical value related to Canada’s railways.
Cape Breton Railways was a finalist for the (2013) Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award.
Congratulations Herb!