Dorreen General Store and GTP Railway Station Site by Kitimat Stikine Regional District Statement of Significance Description The Dorreen general store is a one and one-half storey wood framed gableâroofed… Read More »Dorreen General Store and Railway Station
Grand Trunk Pacific Roundhouse at Pacific by Kitimat Stikine Regional District Statement of Significance Description The Grand Trunk Pacific roundhouse consists of a concrete foundation with associated discarded brick piles… Read More »Grand Trunk Pacific Roundhouse at Pacific
The First Train By Ken Newman It is a worthy effort to recognize and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first passenger train from the east on… Read More »The First Train
Life in the Railway Camps Reprinted from the 1912 book The Making of a Great Canadian Railway by F. A. Talbot, Chapter XVIII If one wishes to see the rough… Read More »Life in the Railway Camps
Kwinitsa by Charles LeRoss Kwinitsa, (originally âQuinitsaâ, Tsimshian for âplace of the beaverâ) was the busiest train station located midpoint between Terrace and Prince Rupert on the GTP/CNR. It is… Read More »Kwinitsa
Track Layer by Charles LeRoss By March 1910, the rail bed for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) had been blasted out of the rock on Kaien Island, following a… Read More »Track Layer
Bridging Zanardi Rapids by Charles LeRoss In April 1908, the first construction contract for the western end of the Grand Trunk Pacific was let at Prince Rupert. The contract was… Read More »Bridging Zanardi Rapids
BLEEDING DAY AND NIGHT: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY ACROSS TSIMSHIAN RESERVE LANDS1 JAMES A. MCDONALD Department of Ethnology Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario,… Read More »BLEEDING DAY AND NIGHT:
The No. 1 Armored Train by Jim Suderman, Mennonite Heritage Centre This article was published in Manitoba History, Number 19, Spring 1990 by the Manitoba Historical Society Some photographs of… Read More »The No. 1 Armored Train
