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Canadian Northern Railway logo or herald (used pre-1960)
The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) is a historical Canadian railway.
CNoR had its start in the independent branchlines that were being constructed in Manitoba in the 1880s and 1890s as a response to the monopoly exercised by Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Many of these branchlines were built with the sponsorship of the provincial government, which sought to subsidize local competition to the federally subsidized CPR; however, significant competition was also provided by the encroaching Northern Pacific Railway (NPR) from the south.
Two of these branchline contractors, William Mackenzie and Donald Mann, took control of the bankrupt Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company in January, 1896. Mackenzie and Mann expanded their enterprise in 1897 by building further north into Manitoba's Interlake district as well as east and west of Winnipeg. They also began building and buying lines south to connect the U.S. border at Pembina, North Dakota, and east to Ontario.
The Canadian Northern Railway was established in 1899Events January events January 1 End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 3 The first known use of the word " automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times''. January 6 Lord Curzon becomes a vic and all railway companies owned by Mackenzie and Mann (primarily in Manitoba) were consolidated into the new entity. CNoR's first step toward competing directly with CPR came at the turn of the century with the decision to build a line directly east to the head of Lake SuperiorLake Superior is the largest of North America's Great Lakes. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area with Lake Baikal in Siberia having more volume. The Caspian Sea is larger, but contains salt water. Lake Superior has a surface are at the harbour in Port Arthur-Fort WilliamThunder Bay (48° 23N, 89° 15W, time zone EST) is a city in Thunder Bay District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is the second largest city in Northern Ontario ( 2001 population 109,016; CMA 121,986). The city takes its name from the immense bay at the h. This line was an extension of an existing CNoR line to Lake of the WoodsLake of the Woods ( French: lac des Bois is a lake occupying parts of the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the state of Minnesota. It separates some land in Minnesota, the Northwest Angle, from the rest of the United States so it can be reached from. To reach Port Arthur, the line extended south of this lake into northern MinnesotaMinnesota ( In Detail) (Full size) State nickname: North Star State Other U. States Capital Saint Paul Largest City Minneapolis Governor Tim Pawlenty Area Total Land Water % water Ranked 12th225,365 kmē206,375 kmē18,990 kmē8. 4% Population Total ( 2000) D before heading northeast into Ontario. The Winnipeg-Port Arthur line was completed on December 30December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. Events 1460 Wars of the Roses: The Duke of York is defeated at the Battle of Wakefield 1862 USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage.
Throughout this time, Mackenzie and Mann had been busy expanding their prairieThe Canadian prairies is a vast area of flat sedimentary land that stretches from Ontario and the Canadian Shield to the Canadian Rockies covering much of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta the Prairie Provinces . The prairies are one of branch line network to feed the connection to Port Arthur. This network expanded in subsequent years to cover most parts of the prairies.