Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known as CP Rail (CP) is a railway in North America with track in both Canada and the United States.[1] It was built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885. Although it used to go all the way to Atlantic Canada, it does not do so anymore.
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| Traded as | TSX: CP NYSE: CP |
| Industry | Rail transport |
| Founded | February 16, 1881 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Canada Contiguous United States |
Key people | Andrew Reardon (Chairman) Keith Creel (President and CEO) |
| Website | www |
When British Columbia became part of Canada in 1871, one of the promises the federal government made was to link it to the rest of Canada by rail. Most of the trains that use the CPR carry freight, and the CPR used to run passenger train services until they were taken over by Via Rail in 1978. For many years, until the airplane was invented, the railway was the only way to move people across the country. Because of this, it had a big role in the settlement and development of Western Canada.
The company that owns the CPR, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, was once one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada.[2] It owns about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of track[1] from Montreal in the east to Vancouver in the west and Edmonton to the north. CP also has track in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City in the United States.
The logo of the CPR company is a beaver, the national symbol of Canada, and it has its headquarters in Calgary, Alberta and its U.S. operations are in Minneapolis.[3] It trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP.
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C.P.R. 2-6-0 locomotive no. 2000 and employees
Canadian Pacific Railway Crew laying tracks at lower Fraser Valley, 1883
Unidentified engineers of the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey, 1872
Map from 1890 showing system of land survey and the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba, Alberta, Assiniboia, and Saskatchewan. First Nations reserves are marked throughout with "I.R." for "Indian Reserve."
C.P.R. railroad trestle bridge
Donald Smith, later known as Lord Strathcona, drives the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway, at Craigellachie, 7 November 1885. Completion of the transcontinental railway was a condition of BC's entry into Confederation.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Canadian Pacific Railway (28 January 2011). "Canadian Pacific trains across North America pause for day of mourning". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ↑ "The Top 200: Canada's Largest Companies (c1973-74)". Western Libraries, University of Western Ontario (6 Side). 2008. Archived from the original on 23 February 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
- ↑ "Canadian Pacific's U.S. HQ moves to new digs". Star Tribune. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
Further reading
- Berton, Pierre (1970). The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871–1881. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto. ISBN 0-7710-1326-4.
- Berton, Pierre (1971). The Last Spike. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto. ISBN 0-7710-1327-2.
- Cruise, David and Alison Griffiths (1988). Lords of the Line. Viking, Markham, Ontario. ISBN 0-670-81437-7.
- Innis, Harold A. (1971) [1923]. A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-1704-5.
- Leggett, Robert F. (1987). Railways of Canada. Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, British Columbia. ISBN 0-88894-581-7.
- Sandford, Barrie (1981). The Pictorial History of Railroading in British Columbia. Whitecap Books, Vancouver, British Columbia. ISBN 0-920620-27-2.
- The Premier's Funeral (11 June 1891). The Woodstock Evening Sentinel Review, p. 1.
Other websites
- Canadian Pacific Railway official website
- Canadian Railway history and stories
- CPR, from Sea to Sea: The Scottish Connection Archived 2005-03-13 at the Wayback Machine — Historical essay, illustrated with photographs from the CPR Archives and the McCord Museum's Notman Photographic Archives
- "Canadian Pacific Railway". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online). (4 March 2015). Historica Canada.
- The Canadian Pacific Railway inception - A rich digital set of unique artifacts, archival and graphic material from the UBC Library Digital Collections
- The Early Chinese Canadians: Working in B.C.: Gold, Railway, Mining, and Salmon
- Royal Canadian Pacific
- Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1936), "The conquest of Canada", Railway Wonders of the World, pp. 65–74, illustrated account of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway