Can someone tell me about the various regions where the Canadian Pacific Railway was built?

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Also, If you have ideas about how I could then turn this into a cover of a postcard for a project with captions??

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Both the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National went coast-to-coast.  The CP of course was privately investor owned, the CN was a government operation that as I understand is now either privatised or something like that.

Usually, the two railroads tried to avoid being in each other's regions.  Both the CN and CP have given up lines to newer short lines or have abandoned their track, but most of the railroads were in the southern half of the provinces.  Not much rail activity was as far east as Nova Scotia, although in relative terms, Nova Scotia had several CN lines.  Toronto and Monteal were the extreme eastern attraction to both railroads.

I guess you could produce a post card with the CP logo on it in CP colors and a map of their fullest route status.

From my memory, from a "USAian" since America is a vertical hemisphere almost 300 years older than our USA!

Answer 2

The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871. It was Canada's first transcontinental railway. Now primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades the only practical means of long distance passenger transport in most regions of Canada, and was instrumental in the settlement and development of Western Canada.