Letter from the Spruce Falls Company to the Superintendent for Canadian National, Cochrane Division
Name/Title
Letter from the Spruce Falls Company to the Superintendent for Canadian National, Cochrane DivisionEntry/Object ID
2021.1005.01Description
Letter sent to Mr. W. B. Way, the Superintendent for Canadian National in the Cochrane Division. The letter was sent from the Spruce Falls Company in Kapuskasing Ontario in 1924. It details how the Spruce Falls Company is unable to complete the three copies of a siding agreement that was sent them. The company explains how they require more information to be sent from the general office and how the agreements will not be complete until that information is sent to them. Distinguishing Features: noneContext
Original document, official letter. 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
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Canadian National