DCHP-3

all-red route

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Canadian Pacific Railway route across Canada, so called because it went entirely through British territory.

Quotations

1932
. . . the Canadian Pacific Railway had reached Vancouver, closed the last gap in the "All-Red Route" and had raised the obscure settlement on the muddy shore of Water Street . . . to the status of a world port.
1935
The all-red line had come to life again and thrust on toward the Rockies.