Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known as CP Rail (CP) was a railway in North America with track in both Canada and the United States. It was built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885. It formerly travelled all the way to Atlantic Canada, but not anymore.

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 also ran 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. It owns more than  of track 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 animal of Canada, and it has its headquarters in Calgary, Alberta and its U.S. operations are in Kansas City Missouri. It trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP. In 2023, CP merged with KCS and became CPKC

 References 

Further reading







 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  — Historical essay, illustrated with photographs from the CPR Archives and the McCord Museum's Notman Photographic Archives

 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
 , illustrated account of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway

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