Westward across Canada by CP Rail
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subject: Canadian Pacific Railway
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Railroads--Canada
is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
creator: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
issued: 2017-10-11
created: [not before 1970]
description: Pamphlet describing the route of the Canadian train, going west.
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chungtext/items/1.0357116/source.json
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note: Across Canada by CP Rail , J<>HN Travel, even the luxurious travel of today, in the comfort of "The Canadian" Scenic Domes, is an adventure. Travel, the CP Rail way from tidewater to tidewater across the wide provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia is an adventure in which the traveller of today follows the trail-blazing of a glorious past into a boundless future. The CP Rail transcontinental main line retraces in the 20th Century the routes of many brave and pious explorers of the 17th Century. It follows the track of such heroes as Pere Marquette, LaSalle, Radisson, Nicolet, Champlain, Thompson, Fraser, Mackenzie, Joliet, Dulhut, whose names are in- dissolubly imprinted upon the histories of Canada and the United States. "Across Canada by CP Rail", prepared for riders of the longest "Dome" route in the world, is based upon the railway practice of dividing the track into Sub-Divisions. While the timetable shows the distance between Montreal and Vancouver as 2,878.7 miles and between Toronto and Vancouver as 2,703.7, the "Mileage Boards" found on telegraph poles along the right of way start afresh at the eastern boundary of each sub-division. For instance, Pembroke, 216.6 miles from Montreal, is indicated on the track side by Mileage Board 93 of the Chalk River Sub-Division. In order to pinpoint points of interest in the scenery for ready location from a moving train, reference is made throughout this book to the nearest mileage board and each sub-division traversed is named at its start. Following the operational practice of dividing the line from east to west, these pages divide the CP Rail transcontinental main line — the "Scenic Dome" route — from Montreal and Toronto to Vancouver. At the side of each page a yellow plan map bears the names of all stations on that page. Because the CP Rail main line travels generally in an east-west direction, "north" is used throughout the book to indicate scenes and places on the right…
has type: Advertisements
has type: Pamphlets
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0357116
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
current location: Box 213
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-213-5-8
type: Text