David Laurence Jones is the former manager of internal communications at Canadian Pacific Railway. A history graduate from Concordia University, he worked for fourteen years in the railways corporate archives, researching and collecting stories and anecdotes about the CPRs rich heritage. His books include The Railway Beat: A Century of Canadian Pacific Police Service, Tales of the CPR, See This World Before the Next: Cruising with CPR Steamships in the Twenties and Thirties, and Famous Name Trains: Travelling in Style with the CPR.