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Few, if any, photographs in Canadian history are as famous as the one showing the hammering of the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. It provides a rich opportunity for storytelling because of the number of people in that iconic photo, including a young boy who somehow managed to find his way into an indelible piece of Canadian history. Just how did a teenager insert himself between Donald A. Smith, hammering the spike, and Sandford Fleming? Ray Argyle tells the story of Edward Mallandaine, the 18-year-old boy-cum-adventurer, who travelled from BC to the Northwest Territories (now Alberta) hoping to join the militia and be a part of the military force taking down Louis Riel during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885. As a young boy himself, Argyle got to know the elderly Mallandaine and heard a number of his stories. In this book, he recounts them in fictionalized form with imagined dialogue as we relive Mallandaine’s escapades, whether it is being accosted by thieves while he works to deliver mail by horse, or in his encounters with Dukesang Wong, the Chinese navvy who left behind an extensive written account of his own. This meeting is one of the more interesting set pieces of the book. More could have been written about the photograph itself, a recounting that takes up just one small chapter of the book. What does this photograph still mean today? How did someone so young and unrelated to the CPR make it in, anyway? The book’s inset features on selected historical topics related to the CPR are useful. A perusal of the book by teachers would certainly allow them to enhance any lessons related to a study of the photograph itself. Beyond that, the book would most appeal to keen history students in Grade 7, 8 and beyond.Reviewed by J.D.M. Stewart in Canadian Childrens Book News (Spring 2011, Vol. 34, No. 2)
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