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The number below is a 24/7 service. 1-800-465-9239. Public Inquiries. To learn about CN's involvement in the community, what it is like to live near the railway or for general inquiries, email Public Inquiries. 1-888-888-5909. Human Resources.
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- Introduction
- Canada’s Railway Bust
- Picking Up The Pieces
- Cooperation During The Great Depression
- World War Two and Dieselization
- Adapting to Changing Times in The 20th Century
- Privatization and The Cn of Today
- References
The Canadian National Railway was formed well after most of its contemporaries in Toronto. It was created as a Canadian crown corporation just after World War One to consolidate the railways already managed by Canada’s federal government with the faltering Canadian Northern Railway under one banner. Shortly thereafter the CNR was similarly used to ...
By the time World War One began, the Canadian Government managed a total of four railway companies. The earliest of them was the Intercolonial Railway, founded in 1872 to run between the Grand Trunk in Montreal and the port of Halifax. It came about because of Canada’s confederation a few years earlier in 1867 with the purpose of providing rail acc...
Sir Henry Thornton became president of the yet-to-be-incorporated Canadian National in 1922, replacing David Hannah. Thornton had previously managed the Long Island Railroad and worked for several other railroad companies in the United States and Britain. When he joined Canadian National, their system was made up of a vast number of duplicate lines...
Canadian National would enter the Great Depression on a relative high note, having opened Toronto’s new Union Station in 1927 and the elevated rail corridor in 1930. The new corridor was thoroughly tested with the heaviest locomotive available, one of Canadian National’s 2-10-2 Texastype steam engines delivered in 1924. It included three new interl...
The Great Depression ended with Canada’s entry into World War Two on September 10th, 1939, resulting in the rapid adjustment of Canadian industry to serve the war effort. As the economy rebounded, Canada’s railways quickly found themselves dealing with the opposite of the previous decade’s problems in the form of higher than usual passenger and fre...
In addition to the transition from steam to diesel locomotives, the middle of the 20thcentury saw an even more significant paradigm shift that directly affected railways in Canada. Where transportation used to revolve around trains, streetcars, stagecoaches and walking, it now increasingly involved private automobiles and aircraft. The first highwa...
The public nature of Canadian National was gradually stripped away during the broad trend of austerity in western countries during the latter half of the 20th Century, ultimately becoming a source of much controversy. The money lost by the Federal Government in operating Canadian National was called into question and the crown corporation was recap...
MacKay, Donald. 1986. The Asian dream : the Pacific Rim and Canada’s national railway. N.p.: Douglas & McIntyre. Mackenzie, Keith. 1988. The History of the Canadian National. N.p.: Bonanza Books. Holmgren, Eric J. 2008. “David Blythe Hanna.” The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/david-blythe-hanna. Eagle, John...
(613) 564-8104. Interactive map of Canada’s +41,000 kms railway network. View Class 1, shortline, tourist, commuter & intercity passenger railways, as well as mile posts, passenger stations & crossings.
Mar 25, 2009 · Canadian National Railway Company, incorporated 6 June 1919, is the longest railway system in North America, controlling more than 31,000 km of track in Canada and the United States. It is the only transcontinental rail network in North America, connecting to three coasts: Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico.
