Canadian Government Railways

The Canadian Government Railways (CGR) was a company created by the Canadian government to manage the railroads in financial problems and to promote economic development. It especially was activates of 1915 to 1918.

History

One of the resolutions of the Conférence of Quebec having led to the Canadian Confédération envisaged the construction of the railroad Intercolonial (Intercolonial Railway off Canada), which was to supplement the railway bond between Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Quebec. The railway line was to be entirely had and exploited by the government like development tools commercial in the Maritimes and with the the United States. In 1897, the Intercolonial and the other governmental companies like the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR), the Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR), the Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) and some local companies with the New Brunswick, started to be known like the Canadian Government Railways .

Following the restrictions of the First World War. CGR became a management company of 1915 to 1918 of the railroad companies falling in bankruptcy and those governmental. Indeed, with the stop of the coming financing owners and British shareholders, occupied with the effort of war, and the deceleration of the development of Canada, the majority of the railway companies could not ensure any more the rail-bound transport in the country. The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR), of intercontinental stature, entered this situation and was integrated into CGR the September 6th 1918. The CN absorbed thereafter the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR) in 1920 and the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in 1923 to become one of the greatest railway network in the world.

Even if CGR existed only a few years, with all its potential of transport he played a big role in the development of Canada. In particular, it took part in the Canadian effort of war while transporting men and material towards the wearing of loadings for the face. It largely also helped to bring the helps to Halifax (Nova Scotia) at the time of the famous explosion of 1917

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