43 Railway Charters Granted to Open Area (Papers to 1967)
43 Railway Charters Granted to Open Area is a list on pages 39–41 of Papers to 1967 of forty-three railway companies chartered between 1858 and 1925 to build in the Thunder Bay district, most of which never laid track.[1]
Key facts
- The first railway projected locally was the North West Transit Company, chartered in 1858–59; it got a mail contract but never built.[1]
- Actual construction began on 1 June 1875 with the first sod of the Canadian Pacific line at Westfort, with Judge D. D. Van Norman presiding and Adam Oliver, MPP, cutting the sod.[1]
- Chartered companies listed include the Atikokan Iron Range Railway, Canadian Northern Ontario, Canadian Northern Railway, Lake Superior Mineral, Ontario and Rainy River, Manitoba Ontario, Mount McKay and Kakabeka Falls, Nepigon, and Zenith Mining and Railway companies.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "43 Railway Charters Granted to Open Area", Papers to 1967, Centennial issue (Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1967), p. 39. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ "43 Railway Charters Granted to Open Area", Papers to 1967, Centennial issue (Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1967), pp. 39–41. Archived: datum.locker.