Intercolonial Railway information

The Intercolonial Railway of Canada (reporting mark IRC), also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway (ICR), was a historic Canadian railway that operated...

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of the Intercolonial Railway (ICR) between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Montreal, Quebec. The train was operated by the Canadian National Railway (CNR) from...

making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of...

the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812. The completion of the Intercolonial Railway and its Deep Water Terminal in 1880 allowed for increased steamship...

costs of an expanded railway system. Thus the British North America Act, 1867 included the provision for an Intercolonial Railway to link with the Grand...

the various railway companies. The absorption of the Intercolonial Railway would see CNR adopt that system's slogan, The People's Railway. Another Canadian...

American railway network, as Canadian and American railway companies built lines and bought smaller companies in each other's country. The Intercolonial Railway...

a growing railway industry. In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada chose Moncton as its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railway town for well...

Dominion of Canada. Though Confederation brought into existence the Intercolonial Railway in 1872, new barriers undermined traditional trade relations. In...

Railway, later part of CNR Norton - Intercolonial Railway, later part of CNR Saint John - Intercolonial Railway, later part of CNR St. Stephen - Maine...

to the provinces on the basis of population the building of an intercolonial railway to link Montreal and Halifax, giving Canada access to an ice-free...

Since the Intercolonial Railway's preferred route was the most direct east-west line possible, the Spring Hill and Parrsborough Coal and Railway Company...

tracks joined the Intercolonial Railway's mainline in Halifax at Southwestern Junction at Africville and ran into the Intercolonial's North Street Station...

the federally owned railways, namely the Intercolonial Railway of Canada and the Prince Edward Island Railway (at the time of the department's creation)...

federation in 1867, these railways were transferred to the new central government. As well, the construction of the Intercolonial Railway between them was one...

Company Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways Employees, Provident Fund Intercolonial Express Company of Canada, (Limited) Intercolonial Railway Intercolonial...

Canadian National Railway's second mainline between Montreal and Moncton. Its entire route was built originally as the Intercolonial Railway of Canada. Established...

folded it, along with the Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC), the Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR), and the Hudson Bay Railway (as well as some smaller...

companies were the Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC), the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR), the Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR), and the Hudson...

necessary after the failure of the Intercolonial Railway talks and several fruitless private proposals. The railway line to Windsor (known as the Windsor...

heritage, because Atlantic-centered railway projects promised to make Halifax the eastern terminus of an intercolonial railway system tied to London. Leonard...

connected to the mainland by separate railway car and motor vehicle ferries. In 1880, the Intercolonial Railway (ICR) was opened between Mulgrave on the...

Shediac until it was taken over by the Intercolonial Railway, which moved them to Moncton. Less well-known was the railway most commonly referred to as the...

Quebec conference in October 1864, the decision was made to join the Intercolonial Railway to the Grand Trunk at Rivière-du-Loup. In 1871, the construction...