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In 1901, Clergue acquired the charter of the Ontario, Hudson Bay and Western Railway, which was intending to build a line between the CPR main line and Hudson Bay.
Although CPR competitor Canadian National Railways began its own new transcontinental service, the Super Continental, on the same day, CPR was able to boast honestly that The Canadian was " The first and only all-stainless steel ' dome ' stream-liner in Canada " — it was not until 1964 that the CNR acquired dome cars.
It was acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1890 and its operations and name were subsumed by the CPR.
These were acquired by the CPR as separate companies and were not merged with the NBR company:
To help combat the perception that the CPR route through the Rocky Mountains was more scenic, CN in 1964 acquired a set of six ex-Milwaukee Road " Super Dome " cars ( rechristened " Sceneramics " by CN ) that had formerly seen service on the Olympian Hiawatha.
In 1977, CP Rail acquired NYC's portion ( at that point part of the bankrupt Penn Central giving the CPR 90 % ownership and destined not to be included in Conrail ) which held a 10 % ownership, The CPR merged the TH & B into its system in 1987.
The tracks forming the West Saint John Spur were built as the Carleton, City of Saint John Branch Railroad in the early 1870s and acquired by CPR in the 1890s.
The tracks between McAdam and St. Stephen were built as part of both the St. Andrews & Quebec Railway, New Brunswick & Canada Railway and the Grand Southern Railway ; all were acquired by NBR or CPR at various times through to 1911.
The CPR acquired a parcel of land at Biscotasing in 1884 and by November had cleared.

CPR and International
* Casper / Natrona County International Airport in Casper, Wyoming ( IATA Code: CPR )
The parent company of the International Railway, Canadian Pacific, obtained running rights from Maine Central for Mattawamkeag to Vanceboro where it regained CPR trackage in New Brunswick.
In 1889 the International Railway of Maine was constructed by its owner Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ), extending the CPR's transcontinental mainline east from Montreal, Quebec to Saint John, New Brunswick.
Cranbrook is home to the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel which presents static exhibits of passenger rail cars built in the 1920s for the CPR and in the 1900s for the Spokane International Railway.
In 2010, Sparks used his CPR skills to help resuscitate an unconscious, elderly man at the Los Angeles International Airport.
The ‘ A ’ is for ‘ airway ’ in the ‘ CAB ’ ( chest compressions-airway-breathing ) of cardiopulmonary resuscitation according to the 2010 American Heart Association and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation CPR guidelines.
Between 1886 and 1888, CPR built the International Railway of Maine, also referred to as the " Short Line ", across a gap between Quebec's Eastern Townships and the Maine Central Railroad at Mattawamkeag, Maine ( on the European and North American Railway " Maine " section ).
From Mattawamkeag to the International Boundary at Vanceboro-St. Croix, CPR gained trackage rights from the Maine Central.
The International Railway of Maine was a historic railroad constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) between Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and Mattawamkeag, Maine, closing a key gap in the railway's transcontinental main line to the port of Saint John, New Brunswick.
This portion of new railway would cross the International Boundary between Megantic, Quebec and Jackman, Maine, thus the CPR organized two separate companies:
The CPR operated its new line across Maine as its International of Maine Division ( Canadian Pacific Lines in Maine ) for many years ; the International Railway of Maine existing on paper for operating purposes, however the track and all operations became seamless in the CPR system.
In 1993, the owner of the tracks between Saint John and Montreal, CPR, began to look for potential buyers of its former International Railway of Maine and associated lines.
In 1889 the International Railway of Maine was built by Canadian Pacific Railway from Megantic, Quebec to the MEC at Mattawamkeag, Maine The MEC granted trackage rights to the CPR over the 56 mile section from Mattawamkeag to Vanceboro at that time.
Stephen started the process which would see CPR purchase the NBR, as well as build a line across Maine from southern Quebec to connect with the rail network-what would be known as the International Railway of Maine.
In 1889 the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) built the International Railway of Maine the final link making it the first transcontinental railway, the following year the CPR leased the New Brunswick Railway for nine-hundred-ninety-nine years.
With support from the Dutch government under the Strategic Alliance with International NGOs ( SALIN ), Population Services International undertook a 30-month project, from July 2008, aimed at meeting post-partum family planning needs, increasing contraceptive prevalence rate ( CPR ), and decreasing maternal mortality rate ( MMR ) in Mali.

CPR and Railway
Louis Riel | Riel speaks at his trial, which took place in July 1885 and lasted only five daysThe Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) played a key role in the government's response to the Rebellion, as it was able to transport federal troops to the area quickly.
In 1988, CPR transferred trackage east of Megantic to its subsidiary Canadian Atlantic Railway.
The BAR line as well as the CPR line west of Brownville now form part of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway.
On January 1, 1995, CPR sold the line through Vanceboro to the New Brunswick Southern Railway, which operates as the Eastern Maine Railway in the United States.
When Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald began to settle the West in Canada, he put the project under the command of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ).
The Shogomoc Historical Railway Site showcases a restored CPR train station and three CPR cars and is home to FRESH " fine dining ".
The Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) reached the future site of Weyburn from Brandon, Manitoba in 1892 and the Soo Line from North Portal on the US border in 1893.
Weyburn had since become an important railroad town in Saskatchewan – the Pasqua branch or the Souris, Arcola, Weyburn, Regina CPR branch ; Portal Section on the CPR / Soo Line ; Moose Jaw, Weyburn, Shaunavon, Lethbridge CPR section ; the Brandon, Marfield, Carlyle, Lampman, Radville, Willow Bunch section of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ); and the Regina, Weyburn, Radville, Estevan, Northgate CNR section have all run through Weyburn.
After the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed, many Chinese were left with no work and no longer seen as useful to both the CPR and the Canadian government.
Greenfield wanted to sell the lines to the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ), a course of action that was endorsed by Brownlee, but many farmers despised the CPR and most UFA MLAs preferred to keep the lines government-operated.
In 1874 or 1875, John Sifton won contracts for preliminary construction work on the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) and moved the family to Winnipeg, where Arthur completed high school at Wesley College.
Adamson, and it was on this quarter section Adamson claimed that Rosser chose as the townsite for the CPR Railway and named Brandon.
Railroad tracks owned by Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) pass through Sparta providing freight service.
Some of the most scathing criticism came from the railway industry itself — namely the commercially successful Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ), which argued that its taxes should not be used to fund a competitor.
The company was also used as an instrument of federal government policy, from the operation of ferries in Atlantic Canada, to assuming the operation of the narrow-gauge Newfoundland Railway following that province's entry into Confederation, and the partnership with CPR in purchasing and operating the Northern Alberta Railways.
The merger announcement by CN's Paul Tellier and BNSF's Robert Krebs was greeted with skepticism by the U. S. government's Surface Transportation Board ( STB ), and protested by other major North American rail companies, namely Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) and Union Pacific Railroad ( UP ).
After World War II, two developments eventually proved disastrous to previously profitable passenger rail transport offered by Canadian National Railways ( CNR ), the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ), and smaller lines.

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