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3 unusual facts about Grand Trunk


George Harry Webster

returned to railway construction and was involved in several large projects, including completion of the Grand Trunk line between Calgary and Tofield.

Guelph Transit

The initial route of the GRC was south along Woolwich Street, through the downtown and along Dundas Road, with a second line running from the Sleeman owned Silvercreek Brewery on Waterloo Avenue, to the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk (later Canadian National) Railway stations.

Seguin Falls

The OA&PS Railway through Seguin Falls, locally known as the Grand Trunk was taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1904, which was subsequently absorbed by Canadian National Railways in 1923.


John H. Boylan

He was raised and educated in Brighton, Vermont, and was employed as a general storekeeper (matériel manager) for the Central Vermont, Canadian National and Grand Trunk railroads.


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Algonquin Provincial Park

The Grand Trunk Railway opened its first hotel, the Highland Inn, near Park Headquarters.

Dunster, British Columbia

Dunster was named by a Grand Trunk Pacific surveyor in honor of his home town Dunster in England.

Elmore Harris

This group was led by Elmore Harris, and included the well-known Casimir Gzowski Jr. (son of the builder of the Grand Trunk Railway and grandfather of broadcaster Peter Gzowski), Robert Kilgour of the Kilgour Brothers (a manufacturer of paper bags and paper boxes), John Drysdale Nasmith (a baker) and Samuel J. Moore of the business forms fame (a Sunday school leader at Dovercourt Road Baptist Church).

Gayton, Staffordshire

Gayton was described in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales in 1870-72 like this: GAYTON, a parish in the district and county of Stafford; near the river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal, 1 mile NE of Weston r.

History of Regina, Saskatchewan

The most ambitious such project, however, the Grand Trunk Railway's Chateau Qu'Appelle hotel at the corner of Albert Street and College Avenue (the site of the 1955 Museum of Natural History, now renamed the Royal Saskatchewan Museum), was abandoned, its building materials lying unused for years until they were eventually bought by the CPR and used in the construction of the Hotel Saskatchewan.

Richard A. Waite

Grand Trunk Railway Company Limited Building, Montreal 1906 - 360 ru McGill now Édifice Gérald-Godin (home to Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities)

SS Milwaukee

The docks of the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company were located on the Kinnickinnic River, and their ferries were familiar sights to residents of Jones Island.