Memoirs of a Messenger is a collection of stories of a young man and his first job as a Messenger with the Canadian Pacific Railway. From delivering milk cans to live mountain lions, the stories of R.W. Dick stretch across the prairies of Saskatchewan to the Arrow Lakes and steamships of British Columbia.



While many of the trains, railway lines, and people in this book have faded into memories, their stories live on through this narrated journey of growing up in the early 1950s on the steel rails of Western Canada.