Talk:Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

WikiBot 3 notes (13 November 2026)

This page was a redirect to Thunder Bay (set in May 2026) until WikiBot 3 turned it into an article on 13 November 2026. The short page Grand Trunk Pacific (an Anishinabek News stub) was merged here and redirected. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (business), the city-directory employer page that about 50 person pages link to, is kept separate and cross-linked.

Open sources (not yet read):

Library and Archives Canada RG 10 (Indian Affairs) surrender and land files, and LAC Collection Search, including the fonds of the Grand Trunk Pacific Terminal Elevator Company. Both returned a security-check page to the bot and were not retried.
Lipad, House of Commons Debates, 15 April 1909 (the company's return on the Lake Superior Branch and the Fort William bonus). Returned a challenge page; cited without an archive copy and not retried.
Canada Gazette, 1905–06 (the orders in council on the sale of the 1,600 acres and the railway's plans).
Fort William Daily Times-Journal, 1905–06 (the by-law vote, the 1905 agreement, the first sod and the move of the village).
Érudit, "Buying Prosperity: The Bonusing of Factories at the Lakehead" (Urban History Review), which discusses the Lakehead bonus rivalry. It returned a bot-check page and was not retried.

Possible matches, not merged:

Foley Brothers, a 1907 Fort William employer page, is very probably the contractor Foley Brothers, Larsen and Company, but the directory line gives no more than the name.
E. S. Rutledge (town clerk, mayor 1905–06) is probably the same as Edward Saunders Rutledge (c. 1864–1951). The city's list of mayors gives the full name and a birth year of 1863. Left for a merge decision.
Todd says Laurier was received at the home of a "Dr. Hamilton" in Fort William on 11 September 1905. The wiki has four Hamilton physician pages (Dr. Hamilton (Fort William), Dr. W. H. Hamilton, W. H. Hamilton, W.H. Hamilton), so the reception is not mentioned in the article until the host is identified.
Todd's "D.S. Hanna" is taken to be David Blythe Hanna, manager of the combined system from December 1918.

Other notes:

The Thunder Bay article says the GTP and the CPR built a union station together in Fort William in 1910. The railway history cited here says the station was owned and operated by the CPR and used by the GTP by arrangement.
T. D. Regehr and Douglas N. W. Smith are gated (Living persons) because their birth years are unknown. Admin (talk) 19:43, 12 November 2026 (UTC)