DCHP-3

transcontinental

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

either of the two railways that cross Canada.

Quotations

1877
[We say that in the first place, without the trans-continental railway British Columbia is of no use to Canada, nor Canada to British Columbia.]
1907
Dealing with the immense expenditure on the G.T.P. transcontinental in excess of the original estimates, the Toronto News puts the case very fairly, as follows. . . .
1955
Yet the grain that train carries moves for exactly the same number of cents per bushel, a rate fixed by the rigid agreement shortly after the first trans-continental opened for business.
2n.

a train on a trans-Canada run.

Quotations

1920
. . . at Winnipeg the transcontinental was boarded by one Bill Panns, a rancher on his way back to the foothills after two years in a German prison.
1964
"You heard the one about the squaw on the trans-continental?"