A National Passenger Chronicle: Vol 2
Name/Title
A National Passenger Chronicle: Vol 2Entry/Object ID
2021.791.01Description
Book describing the history and development of Canadian National's passenger service. It discusses both the history of the railway itself as well as the predecessors and how its passenger service has evolved. Volume two of four. Distinguishing Features: noneContext
Contains historic photographs, maps, and context to discuss the history and development of Canadian National's passenger service. Canadian National was created following the end of the First World War, by combining five lines which were financially troubled. It soon became the largest railway in the country. Canadian National Railways was founded in 1919 as a combination of several railways that had become bankrupt and were being ran by the Canadian Government Railways, its primary service was freight but also operated passenger service until 1978 until it was absorbed by VIA rail. The Canadian National Railways was created by the Government of Canada as a means to fund the failing railway corporations including: Intercolonial Railway of Canada, National Transcontinental Railway, Prince Edward Island Railway, and Hudson's Bay Railway.Collection
Library ArchiveCategory
Canadian National