CN Publication: Lines in Ontario North and West of Ottawa and Parry Sound
Name/Title
CN Publication: Lines in Ontario North and West of Ottawa and Parry SoundEntry/Object ID
2021.879.01Description
Document discussing how the Ottawa, Arprior and Parry Sound Railway was sold to the Grand Trunk Railway on January 1, 1905. Single page document. Assumed to have came from a larger document. Carbon copy. Distinguishing Features: noneContext
Discusses the purchase of the Ottawa, Arprior and Parry Sound Railway by Grand Trunk in 1905. 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, Grand Trunk