Caption: Clearing debris at the
Intercolonial Railway Station, which was destroyed by the blast, December 1917.
History and other scholars from Canada and the US discuss how environments were modified to facilitate mobility and the challenges and opportunities people faced, such as the transformation of the Nova Scotian spruce forests into ships and the impact of the shipbuilding industry on Maitland, the use of the
Intercolonial Railway, lakeside mobility in the Muskoka region in Ontario, the use of ice roads in northern Saskatchewan, the construction of the St.
The last link of the
Intercolonial Railway was completed in 1876, joining with the Grand Trunk line that ran up the St.
Jarvis worked on the Spalding to March railway in England, east of Birmingham, between 1864 and 1867 before returning to Canada in 1868 when he was employed as an assistant engineer by the Government of Canada, under renowned engineer and surveyor Sir Sandford Fleming, on the
Intercolonial Railway in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, including responsibility for construction of a 15-mile section and a 12-mile section of the track.
[and] seats of leather." [11] That same year, the Intercolonial Railway spent $159,526.40 on eight sleeping cars built by Pullman's chief competitor, the Wagner Palace Car Company of New York.
The Intercolonial Railway found a ready supply of black transportation workers in Africville, Halifax's historically black neighbourhood.
Thus he does not believe union was necessary for the defence of British North America, or for construction of the
Intercolonial railway and Westward expansion of trade.
A decade later, the controversy surrounding the creation of the Intercolonial Railway, in which the Maritime provinces believed they were ill-treated by the Canadians, fostered a new set of discussions on Maritime Union.
The Intercolonial Railway opened up new opportunities for the region and the Maritimes achieved their highest level of economic activity in the early 1870s.
(60) Steel ingots from Sydney Mines were carried by the
Intercolonial Railway for 30 cents per ton, or for about two per cent of the cost of producing a ton of steel.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia had both made an
intercolonial railway one of their few conditions for entering Confederation in 1867, and British Columbia had joined Confederation in 1871 on the promise of a transcontinental railway to be built.