Isn’t it time for Canada to grow up?
I was more than happy to celebrate Canada Day in 1967. We had just got our new maple-leaf flag. Ottawa had a special train crossing Canada with ...
The real ‘Father of Confederation’ – Part 2
No one believed more in the necessity to build a railroad to the Pacific ... The Canadian Pacific Railway Company had encountered unforeseen ... he engaged in a final farewell journey by train across the country he helped to build.
US-2/US-41 Gladstone railroad crossing work to start July 10
DELTA COUNTY -- Under a permit from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), the Canadian National Railroad will remove a railroad ...
MILTON 160: The long and winding story behind local rails
The excitement and euphoria of Canada's rail building age changed Milton and ... There were many attempts to encourage rail building to penetrate the ... the line skirted the town on the west boundary eliminating the level-crossing ...
Lawrie McFarlane: Canada is an unlikely experiment that worked
Lawrie McFarlane: Canada is an unlikely experiment that worked ... The first land crossing of Canada by explorers had been made less than a century ... no one had any idea how to drive a railroad through the Selkirk Mountains.