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1820 ‘s-1920 ‘s Canada’s Century On Line

1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

A funiculartrack upfrom theSt.Lawrence

River totheCitadelle atQuebecCitycarried thefirst steamrailway inNA. Thetrackliftedstone tobuild thenew

fortress.

The first RR in Canadastretched from St. John’s (St.Jean) on the Richelieu R toLaprairie on the St. LawrenceR.

It was a portage between theMolson steamboat lines (1836).

Albion Mines RR, the first inthe Maritimes (1839).

The Depression of1837-39 & Rebellionsof 1837-38 delayed RRconstruction.RR Guarantee Act:

RRs more than 75miles (120 kms) wereeligible for a gov’t.guarantee of moneywhen ½ of the line wascompleted (1849).Created the RR boomof the 1850s.

Hincks, Author ofGuar. Act

Great Western RR; Windsor-Niagara Falls(1854). Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge,longest in world (1855).

First mail cars carry the post andmake letters much cheaper (1854).

Grand Trunk RR (GTR); Sarnia-Toronto,Toronto-Montreal (1856). GTRbridges St. Lawrence R at Montreal(Victoria Tubular Bridge 1859).

Prince of Wales, son ofQueen Victoria, at theVictoria Bridge in Mtl.

He opens the GTRSarnia to Portland,Maine (ice-free port).This is the longest RRin the world (1860).

The CanadianConstitutionof 1867 required the

Inter-Colonial RR toconnect the St.Lawrence R to

the Maritimes.

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