Grant Brook

George Monro Grant (1835–1902) was secretary to Sanford Fleming during the engineer’s survey of the route for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

When British Columbia entered the Dominion in 1871, preliminary surveys for the promised transcontinental railroad began form east and west. After reading the preliminary reports, chief engineer Fleming decided to travel overland to see the main features of the country with his own eyes. During this journey, which took him on horseback across the prairies and over the Rocky Mountains by way of Yellowhead Pass, Grant kept a diary, which he published as Ocean to Ocean (London, 1873). Born in Nova Scotia, Grant was ordained as a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1860, and was made moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 1899. He was a charter member of the Royal Society of Canada, founded in 1882, and was president of that society in 1901.

Grant, George Monro. Ocean to ocean: Sanford Fleming’s expedition through Canada in 1872. Toronto : Belford Brothers, 1877.
  Available at the Glenbow Library: Call Number 971.2 G761o 1877

Story, Norah. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
  Available at the Glenbow Library: Call Number S10.9 S887o