On March 4, 1910, a work crew of 63 men, a 91-ton locomotive with a rotary snowplow, and railway cars to house the workers, were dispatched from Revelstoke to clear deep snow from an avalanche that buried a section of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia. A […]
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Light of the Great Lone Land shines at Battleford
It is “the light that is destined to dispel the gloom that has so long enveloped the Great Lone Land,” Patrick Gammie Laurie promises in the first issue of his Saskatchewan Herald, August 25, 1878, at Battleford, a fur-trading post and police station chosen as the capital of the North West Territories because […]
Toronto promoter plans plan to beat U.S. with first transcontinental railway to Pacific coast
North West Transportation, Navigation, and Railway Company has a plan to beat the United States with the first railway across the continent to the Pacific coast, the Ottawa Citizen reports, September 28, 1858. Backed by Toronto investors, the plan is the brainchild of Toronto lawyer and mining and transportation promoter Alan McDonnell. Initially, transportation […]