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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 ...
Montreal and Ottawa Railway: Acquired by CPR. CP operates to Rigaud, line from Rigaud to Ottawa abandoned and sold to Via Rail. Montreal and Vermont Junction Railway: Acquired by CNR. Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway: Farnham, Quebec/Brownville, Maine: 2003-2013: Sold in bankruptcy to Fortress Investments as Central Maine and Quebec Railway
eBay, PayPal, Kijiji, and StubHub in Toronto. Kijiji was launched as "a start-up within eBay created by a small team of entrepreneurial employees", according to eBay's March 2005 press release announcing the new service. [10] Kijiji was launched in February 2005 in Quebec City and Montreal, and expanded across the rest of Canada in November ...
The 84 kilometres (52 mi) railway, Ottawa's first to outside markets, was initially used to ship lumber collected on the Ottawa River for further shipping along the St. Lawrence to markets in the United States and Montreal. [1] Bytown became Ottawa in 1855, and the railway changed its name to match, becoming the Ottawa and Prescott Railway (O&PR).
By 1981 the company was owned by Canada Steamship Lines Inc., 50% owned by Paul Martin's family. The Quebec routes were sold to other operators over the following decade, and in 1994 Greyhound purchased key Ottawa and Toronto routes from Voyageur. In 1998 CSL sold Voyageur to Greyhound Canada, which in turn is owned by the UK-based FirstGroup.
The service is planned to operate between Toronto and Quebec City partly along newly constructed tracks that would run pass through Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Laval, and Trois-Rivières, and partly along existing right of way. The government's initial announcement envisioned trains operating at a maximum speed 200 km/h (125 mph), but the ...
Ottawa [a] is the capital city of Canada.It is located in the southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the meeting of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River.Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). [13]
Until the construction of the Lachine Canal through Montreal, the rapids had to be portaged. Even with the canal, the difficulty was such that it was usually more convenient to ship goods by rail to Montreal, where they could be loaded at the city's port. Montreal remains a major rail hub and one of Canada's largest ports for that reason.