DCHP-3

intercolonial railway

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a railway linking the Maritimes with Quebec and Ontario, the beginnings of the transcontinental railway.

Quotations

1887
. . . many of our passengers [left] at Rimouski, where the mail tender meets the steamer, and the inter-colonial railway is available. . . .
1953
For twenty years previous to Confederation, the people of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, led by Howe, had been attempting to build an intercolonial railway connecting them one with the other and with Canada.