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At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. [1] Southern companies, towns, cities as well as state governments were heavy investors in railroad companies, which were typically designed as feeder lines linking farming centers to port ...
The Railroads of the Confederacy (1952) excerpt and text search; Brown Jr., Canter "The Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, 1851-1868," Florida Historical Quarterly (1991) 69#4 pp. 411–429 in JSTOR; Clark, John Elwood. Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat (LSU Press, 2001) Clarke, Robert L.
After she freed herself from slavery, she helped other enslaved people reach freedom in Canada. The town was a final stop on the Underground Railroad for many people. [13] Sandwich First Baptist Church – Windsor. [1] The church was built just over the border from the United States in Windsor, Ontario by blacks who came to Canada to live free.
American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association; Old Time Trains Histories of Canadian Railways, past and present; CTA List of companies holding a Certificate of Fitness which is the legal authority to operate a Federal railway; Railway Atlas of Canada PDF route maps of operating railways, by provinces and cities.
Canada's cities span the continent of North America from east to west, but many of them are located relatively close to the border with the United States. Cities are home to the majority of Canada's approximately 35.75 million inhabitants (as of 2015)—just over 80 percent of Canadians lived in urban areas in 2006. [1]
Map showing the territory of the National Transcontinental Railway, in Quebec and Ontario (very pale blue along the top of the map). The completion of construction of Canada's first transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) on November 7, 1885, preceded a tremendous economic expansion and immigration boom in western Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but ...
Defunct. Bedell was a small railway community near Kemptville which was mainly composed of CPR workers and their families. It was originally Kemptville Junction, then Kempton, and finally Bedell sometime after WWI. Beeton: Grand Trunk Defunct. Bell Ewart: Northern Railway of Canada: Defunct. Belle River 1872 (before/circa) Great Western
The Intercity Electric Railway Industry in Canada University of Toronto Press 1966; Eagle J. A., The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896–1914. McGill-Queen's University Press 1989; R. B. Fleming; The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849–1923 University of British Columbia Press, 1991