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See 1958 quote.

See: portage ((n.))(def. 1b),portage road(def. 3)

Quotations

1946

[Caption] Early Portage Railroads: The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, 1836.

1958

[The history of railways in Canada begins in 1832 with . . . the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad . . . conceived as a portage link in the water route from the St. Lawrence River to New York.]