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Hudson Bay Railway

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the first railway into the Canadian North, from Winnipeg to Churchill, Manitoba, completed in 1932.

See: Highball Express,muskeg railway(def. 1)

Quotations

1927

Setting Lake is now an important divisional point on the Hudson Bay railway . . . Roundhouses, yards, water tanks, freight sheds, etc., have been erected by the Canadian National Railways.

1931

The completion of the Hudson Bay railway to Churchill marks another step in the opening of the great Northland.