Canadian National Railway

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, also known as Amtrak is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service throughout United States. Founded in 1971 to revive passenger rail service, congress passed the Rail Passenger Service Act which in turn created Amtrak. Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces, operating more than 300 trains each day over 21,300 miles with travel speeds as high as 150 mph.…

Colony in the 17th Century to 2002, with a strong emphasis on the era post-Confederation, this ambitious text provides a synthesis of Canadian immigration policy while simultaneously dissecting the ideological, legal, and political underpinnings behind them. In…

Lumber Co. Another sawmill operator in the region was the Mitchell Lumber Co. set up by Thomas Mitchell in 1898 (later this would become in the 1920s the Mitchell-McDonald Lumber Co.). The mill was located west of the CPR railway, on the now Blackstone-Crane Road, producing railway ties and shims from wood obtained south of their mill, from Second and Third Lakes all the way down to Blackstone and…

This impacted Canada socially because this was Canada’s first foreign battle with Britain. If Canada wasn’t part of Britain’s colony then Canada wouldn’t have to get involved in the Boer War. In addition, this affected Canada politically because the Canadian government had to gather troops to send over assist…

referring to the political situation of this period. Daschuk asserts that the government refused to “help on the basis of the treaty assistance in crisis” as a strategy for accomplishing their own benefits such as the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The government used starvation and diseases as a tool for the control, assimilation, and elimination of Aboriginals: “[...] while the Indians were starving, in many cases to death, the authorities withheld food that was available” (113)…

immigrant, Hamilton misrepresents Manitoba to encourage a more mass immigration to the province. Hamilton quotes a Professor, Manitoba will “be the happy home of millions of people prosperous and happy.” Mimicking much of the promotional literature and Canadian expansionist rhetoric, Hamilton’s narrative opened up the province of Manitoba for mass settlement and…

what it truly means to be Canadian. They connect Canada with things like “snow”, “Beavers” and the constant use of “eh”. Yet Canada is much more than what meets the eye, there are many values to being Canadian that other countries may not provided for their citizens. In the video “Canadian, Please” and “He’ll never be a real Canadian,” Andrew Gunadie uses a number of cliches and humour to promote the notion of what it truly means to be Canadian. In the video “Canadian, Please,” Gunadie…

First, I want to talk and discuss about “Race.” In this world, we have many countries with many types of people like: Korean, American, Vietnamese, Indian, and etc. there is not only cause they lived in different countries, for they have different about culture, skin, and language of each countries. I am a Vietnamese person and living in there for seventeen years before I moved to U.S. When I came to America, I saw a lot of difference from culture to race of people. There are people with white,…

179. Christopher is going to run away from home, but he is really confused on where at first. He originally thought Mrs. Shears, but she didn 't answer. That idea also makes no sense because Christopher 's dad would not be that far away. He eventually deduces that his best option is to find his mother in London. I just don 't understand how his logic with people can be so skewed. There is no reason to believe that Mr. Boone would try to kill Christopher. I also don 't understand his decision of…

for you any more, because just like you could never get on a train in an airport, I could never expect the wrong person on the wrong place in a wrong time.” On that day they broke up. However, few years later, the Hongqiao Airport and the Hongqiao Railway station was linked together, and the designer is the boy in this story. After reading this story, I was surprised not by the shocking ending nor by how heartbreaking…