Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

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Grand Trunk Railway

  • In Grand Trunk Railway

    Eventually, a western branch, the Grand Trunk Pacific, was constructed, but this new rail network proved so unprofitable that it passed into government receivership in 1919. As a result of the liabilities incurred by its Pacific subsidiary, the Grand Trunk Railway was nationalized and became part of the Canadian National…

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Prince George

  • Prince George, Canada
    In Prince George

    …with the coming of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (1913). Prince George is now the focus of the province’s central and northern transportation systems and regional administration. Its economy is linked with the forest industries, minerals, oil and natural gas, and hydropower of the interior regions. Prince George College was…

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transcontinental railroad

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    In railroad: Canadian railroads

    The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway beginning at Winnipeg passed through the fertile belt of the prairies to Edmonton, continuing thence to Yellowhead Pass and across central British Columbia to a totally new port on Kaien Island in Canada just south of the Alaska Panhandle, which was…

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