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The Montreal Northern Colonization Railway Company, formed on 5 April 1869, was renamed Montreal, Ottawa & Western Company on 8 April 1875 and merged into the QMO&OR in December 1875. After the sale of this company's assets, its charter was used to restart a company in the Laurentians under the name of Montreal & Western Railway on 25 May 1883 ...
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Collerette ladder for firefighting – invented by Montreal firefighter Rodrigue Colleret and demonstrated in London in 1896 [53] Kakivak – a leister used by Inuit for spear fishing and fishing at short range; A process for distilling kerosene was invented by Abraham Pineo Gesner and made the fuel popular [7]
A horse-drawn runabout owned by Caroline Foster, on display in Fosterfields Living Historical Farm. The special feature of the runabout was that the body was hung low by using cranked axles, and the side-bars were attached to legs at the top of the crank. The original runabout was made without a top, and, besides hanging low which made for ...
A runabout is a car body style popular in the 1910s, based on the horse-drawn runabout carriage. It was popular in North America from 1900 to about 1915. It was a light, basic style with no windshield, top, or doors and a single row of seats. Runabouts eventually became indistinguishable from roadsters and the term fell out of use in the United ...
Electric traction would provide speeds of 300 km/h and would cost $21.3 billion for an entire Windsor–Quebec City system; a Montreal–Ottawa–Toronto system would cost $11 billion. [37] The study further revealed that a Montreal–Ottawa–Toronto system is the most economically viable section and could generate a positive net economic ...
Voyageur Colonial Limited was incorporated on January 7, 1928, as Colonial Coach Lines Ltd., which ran buses between Renfrew, Ottawa, Morrisburg and Kingston, Ontario. In 1930 Colonial was purchased by the Provincial Transport Company (la Compagnie de Transport-Provincial), which had been incorporated in November 1928 and acquired 31 bus lines ...
The steam locomotives used to pull the train included CPR 2850, a Hudson built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1938, CNR 6400, a U-4-a Northern and CNR 6028 a U-1-b Mountain type. They were specially painted royal blue, with the exception of CNR 6028 which was not painted, with silver trim as was the entire train.