List of subsidiary railways of the Canadian Pacific Railway
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The Canadian Pacific Railway
(CPR) owned several subsidiary
railway
s. The CPR often built or acquired lines through subsidiaries. Many of these subsidiaries retained their identity for an extended amount of time, others were only on paper.
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...
(CPR) owned several subsidiary
Subsidiary
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railway
Rail transport
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s. The CPR often built or acquired lines through subsidiaries. Many of these subsidiaries retained their identity for an extended amount of time, others were only on paper.
- Ontario and Quebec RailwayOntario and Quebec RailwayThe Ontario and Quebec Railway is a historic Canadian railway located in eastern Ontario.The railway had received a charter in 1881 and the Canadian Pacific Railway gained control, building the O&Q line between Perth and Toronto...
- Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway
- Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo RailwayToronto, Hamilton and Buffalo RailwayThe Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway was a railway based in Hamilton that ran in Southern Ontario from 1894 to 1987. It never reached the other two cities in its name, although it did have branch lines extending to Dunnville and Port Maitland.-History:...
- Grand River RailwayGrand River RailwayThe Grand River Railway was an electric railway in what is now the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, in Southwestern Ontario. It was an example of a radial railway.-History:...
- Lake Erie and Northern Railway
- Quebec Central RailwayQuebec Central RailwayThe Quebec Central Railway was a railway in the Canadian province of Quebec, that served the area of Quebec called the Eastern Townships, south of the St. Lawrence River. Its headquarters was in Sherbrooke. It was originally incorporated in 1869 as the Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships and Kennebec...
- Kettle Valley RailwayKettle Valley RailwayThe Kettle Valley Railroad was a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway that operated in the Thompson-Okanagan region of southern British Columbia....
- Kaslo and Slocan RailwayKaslo and Slocan RailwayThe Kaslo and Slocan Railway was a narrow gauge gauge railway between Kaslo, Slocan, and the mining community of Sandon in the Kootenay region of British Columbia between 1895 and 1955 totalling about of track...
- Nakusp and Slocan RailwayNakusp and Slocan RailwayThe Nakusp and Slocan Railway is a historic Canadian railway that operated in southeastern British Columbia.Its line ran between Nakusp, New Denver, British Columbia and Sandon, British Columbia in the Kootenay region of British Columbia....
- Columbia and Kootenay RailwayColumbia and Kootenay RailwayThe Columbia and Kootenay Railway was a historic railway in the Interior of British Columbia between Nelson on Kootenay Lake and Robson at the confluence of the Kootenay River and the Columbia River near Castlegar operated as part of the Canadian Pacific Railway.-History pre-1900:The railway was...
- Soo Line RailroadSoo Line RailroadThe Soo Line Railroad is the primary United States railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway , controlled through the Soo Line Corporation, and one of seven U.S. Class I railroads. Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste...
- St. Lawrence and Hudson RailwaySt. Lawrence and Hudson RailwayThe St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway.The SL&H arose out of a corporate reorganization at CPR that was announced on November 21, 1995...
- Delaware and Hudson RailwayDelaware and Hudson RailwayThe Delaware and Hudson Railway is a railroad that operates in the northeastern United States. Since 1991 it has been a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, although CPR has assumed all operations and the D&H does not maintain any locomotives or rolling stock.It was formerly an important...
- Delaware and Hudson Railway
- Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway
- Canadian Atlantic RailwayCanadian Atlantic RailwayThe Canadian Atlantic Railway is a historic Canadian and U.S. railway that existed from 1988 to 1994.The CAR was created in September 1988 as a business unit of CP Rail System to serve the Maritime Provinces and state of Maine...
- International Railway of Maine
- New Brunswick RailwayNew Brunswick RailwayThe New Brunswick Railway was a historic Canadian railway operating in western New Brunswick. Its headquarters were in Woodstock.The original NBR lines were built to the narrow gauge of...
- Dominion Atlantic RailwayDominion Atlantic RailwayThe Dominion Atlantic Railway was a historic Canadian railway which operated in the western part of Nova Scotia, primarily through an agricultural district known as the Annapolis Valley....