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Quebec's architecture is characterized by its unique Canadien-style buildings as well as the juxtaposition of a variety of styles reflective of Quebec's history. When walking in any city or town, one can come across buildings with styles congruent to Classical , Neo-Gothic , Roman , Neo-Renaissance , Greek Revival , Neo-Classical , Québécois ...
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1535 : Jacques Cartier discovers the beauty of Quebec City, then called Stadaconé, and its river. In Algonquin, “kébec” means “where the river narrows.” 1608 : Samuel de Champlain builds a fortified trading post, which marks the founding of the city.
- Cn Predecessors
- Nationalization
- The Great Depression
- Modernization and Diversification
- Refocusing on Rail
- Privatization
The Grand Trunk was itself an amalgamation of various smaller lines, including the 23.2 km Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad (1836), which connected Montréal with boat traffic to Lake Champlain and the port of New York; the Great Western Railway linking Niagara, Hamilton and Toronto with Windsor and Sarnia; and the St Lawrence and Atlantic Rail...
By 1919, the Intercolonial, Canadian Northern, National Transcontinental and Grand Trunk Pacific had become part of a government railway system known as the Canadian National Railways (CN). In January 1923, the Grand Trunk Railway officially became part of this system. At around the same time, Sir Henry Thornton was appointed president of CN. Despi...
Economic depression in the 1930s reduced traffic volume, leading to cuts in wages and dismissal of employees (see Great Depression ). At the same time, highway and air travel diverted traffic away from the railway. In 1937, however, under C. D. Howe as minister of transport, CN organized formation of Trans-Canada Airlines (now Air Canada), and in 1...
In the 1950s and 1960s, CN was modernized under the dynamic presidency of Donald Gordon, who rationalized (or reorganized) 80 subsidiary companies down to 30. Gordon also directed the conversion to diesel locomotives and electronic signalling and moved the head office to Montréal. By the end of the 1970s, CN had merged its own system of telecommuni...
In the late 1970s, CN started to divest itself of non-rail businesses, including real estate, hotels, and CNCP Telecommunications. Around the same time, Air Canada and VIA Rail, CN’s passenger train subsidiary, became separate Crown corporations (shortly after incorporation, VIA also took over passenger rail services from Canadian Pacific). By 1989...
From the mid-1980s, there was increasing talk about privatizing CN. As a railway company, CN required significant capital investment on an ongoing basis. Politically, ownership by the federal government often influenced high-level appointments with at least as much respect for partisan interest as for “handsoff”direction. In Canada (as in Britain u...
May 9, 2024 · The bridge was privatized in 1993 and is the property of CN, which manages the bridge, although the Quebec government is the bridge's main tenant. In 2019, the federal government said it...
Background. Before the Quebec Bridge was built, the only way to travel from the south shore of the St. Lawrence in Lévis to the north shore at Quebec City was to take a ferry or to use the wintertime ice bridge. The construction of a bridge over the St. Lawrence River at Quebec was considered as early as 1852.
May 15, 2024 · The Québec Bridge is a major road, rail, and pedestrian bridge linking the shores of Quebec City and Lévis, Quebec. Built in 1917, it was designed to boost economic development and connect Quebec City to the Canadian and American rail networks.
May 15, 2024 · The federal government says it has reached a deal with Canadian National Railway (CN) to acquire the historic Quebec Bridge, following decades of political wrangling over what to do with...
