Canadian National Railways Station Employees Handbook
Name/Title
Canadian National Railways Station Employees HandbookEntry/Object ID
2020.190.01Description
Book, station employees handbook for Canadian National employees. The handbook covers: foreword, list of illustrations, chart, general, safety, fire protection prevention and reporting, requisitions, business letters, industrial development, handling of legal documents, employment offices, salesmanship, bills of lading, checking outward freight, car loading rules, explosives and other dangerous articles, freight tariffs, customs regulations, export: foreign freight, weights and weighing, waybills and freight bills, checking inward freight, delivery of freight, car service instructions, seals, perishable freight, freight claims: loss and damage prevention, passenger traffic, express department, communications department, department of road transport, financial department instructions, station accounting: reports and balance sheet freight passenger express miscellaneous and communications, index, system map. These are the standard operating policies followed by all Canadian National branded stations. Distinguishing Features: noneContext
Original document used by Canadian National, it was their policies and standards for station employees. 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