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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a railway train carrying immigrants at low rates to their new places of settlement.

See: emigrant train(def. 2),immigration train

Quotations

1895

At the time of my arrival everything was bustle and excitement, as an immigrant train was expected with several settlers for the Bay.

1911

In the last issue we asked the C.P.R. why they didn't put on a coffee-and-sinker layout on their immigrant trains.

1953

Soon the spectacle of long immigrant trains shuttling across the country was a typical sight, and Winnipeg, the first distribution-point for these new Canadians, became a polyglot metropolis of diverse accents and nationalities.