Bookworm, no. 131

Julie Sobowale reviews Bob Chaulk’s “Railroaded.” Cheryl Bell on Nicole Baart’s “Where He Left Me.” Inside the January/February issue.

Pier Pressure

Railroaded: The Untold History of Halifax’s Rail Cut
Bob Chaulk
Nimbus Publishing
224 pages, softcover and ebook

In the early twentieth century, Halifax was missing out. Trains from the Intercolonial, Windsor, and Annapolis Railways stopped short of downtown, which prevented the people, products, and mail coming off ships in the harbour from ea…