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What (who) is Pacific Railway Act - definition

ACTS OF CONGRESS AUTHORIZING SUPPORT FOR THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
Pacific Railroad Act; Pacific railroad bill; Pacific Railway Act of 1862; Pacific Railway Act; Pacific Railway Acts; Pacific Railroad Act of 1862; AN ACT to establish the gauge of the Pacific railroad and its branches.
  • First and last pages of the original manuscript of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 489) signed by President Lincoln on July 1, 1862 ''(U.S. National Archives)''

Pacific Railroad Acts         
The Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad) in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies. In 1853, the War Department under then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis was authorized by the Congress to conduct surveys of five different potential transcontinental routes from the Mississippi ranging from north to south.
Canadian Pacific Railway         
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  • [[Canadian Pacific 2816]] ''Empress'' at [[Sturtevant, Wisconsin]], 1 September 2007
  • Port Arthur]] on 30 June 1886
  • An alternative CP logo, featuring a [[beaver]], Canada's national animal
  • C.P.R. railway locomotive 2860
  • C.P.R. [[2-6-0]] locomotive no. 2000 and employees
  • CPR 2317]], a G-3-c 4-6-2 Pacific-type locomotive built at the CPR's Angus Shops in 1923
  • CPR trestle bridge
  • No. 29]] on static display in front of the railway's headquarters in [[Calgary]], Alberta, 2012
  • Canadian Pacific Railway Crew laying tracks at lower [[Fraser Valley]], 1883
  • Canadian Pacific Railway Survey]], 1872
  • CPR train step stool (Calgary station) c. 1950
  • CPR advertisement highlighting "Free Farms for the Million" in western Canada, circa 1893
  • The system in 1906, soon after the construction of the transcontinental railway
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  • Soo Line 6022, an [[EMD SD60]], pulls a train through [[Wisconsin Dells, WI]], 20 June 2004.
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  • [[John A. Macdonald]]
  • Funeral train of Prime Minister [[Sir John A. Macdonald]]
  • Strikers from unemployment relief camps climbing on boxcars as part of the [[On-to-Ottawa Trek]], 1935
  • One of the CPR's land offerings, 1883
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  • Lethbridge Viaduct
  • Map from 1890 showing system of land survey and the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba, Alberta, Assiniboia, and Saskatchewan. First Nations reserves are marked throughout with "I.R." for "Indian Reserve."
  • Queen Elizabeth]] at [[Hope, British Columbia]]
  • Telegram to Prime Minister John A. Macdonald announcing the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 7 November 1885
  • Advertisement for Canadian Pacific steamships to the Far East, 1936
  • Holiday Train in Montreal, November 2009
  • Waterfront station]] in Vancouver
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CLASS I RAILROAD IN CANADA AND U.S.
Canadian Pacfic; Canadian Pacific Railroad; CP Rail; Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.; Canadian Pacific Railway Limited; CPRail; The Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific railway; Canadian-Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraphs; Canadian Pacific System; Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia; Canadian Pacific Spirit Train; British Columbia Southern Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway in BC; Canadian pacific railway in british columbia; Canadian Pacific; Alberta Central Railway; CP Telegraphs; CPR Telegraphs; Canadian Pacific Telegraphs; Canadian Pacific Railways; Capital Railway track; CPR Radio; CP Railway; Cp rail

The Canadian Pacific Railway (French: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) (reporting marks CP, CPAA, MILW, SOO), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001.

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 20,100 kilometres (12,500 mi) of track in seven provinces of Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves Minneapolis–St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and Albany, New York in the United States.

The railway was first built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a commitment extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871; it was Canada's first transcontinental railway. Primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades the only practical means of long-distance passenger transport in most regions of Canada, and was instrumental in the settlement and development of Western Canada. The CPR became one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada, a position it held as late as 1975.

The company acquired two American lines in 2009: the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DM&E) and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad (IC&E). The trackage of the IC&E was at one time part of CP subsidiary Soo Line and predecessor line The Milwaukee Road. The combined DM&E/IC&E system spanned North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Iowa, with two short stretches into Kansas City, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois.

It is publicly traded on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP. Its U.S. headquarters are in Minneapolis. As of January 14, 2022, the largest shareholder of Canadian Pacific stock is TCI Fund Management Limited, a London-based hedge fund that owns 8.38% of the company.

As of early 2022, the railroad is attempting to purchase the Kansas City Southern Railway. If approved by the US Surface Transportation Board, the combined "Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited" will form the only railroad serving the three biggest countries in North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States).

Canadian Pacific Limited         
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CANADIAN RAILWAY COMPANY
Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Canadian Pacific Ltd.; Canadian Pacific Forest Products
Canadian Pacific Limited was created in 1971 to own properties formerly owned by Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), a transportation and mining giant in Canada. In October 2001, CPR completed the corporate spin-offs of each of the remaining businesses it had not sold, including Canadian Pacific Railway Limited.

Wikipedia

Pacific Railroad Acts

The Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad) in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies. In 1853, the War Department under then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis was authorized by the Congress to conduct surveys of five different potential transcontinental routes from the Mississippi ranging from north to south. It submitted a massive twelve volume report to Congress with the results in early 1855. However, no route or bill could be agreed upon and passed authorizing the Government's financial support and land grants until the secession of the southern states in 1861 removed their opposition to a central route. The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 489) was the original act. Some of its provisions were subsequently modified, expanded, or repealed by four additional amending Acts: The Pacific Railroad Act of 1863 (12 Stat. 807), Pacific Railroad Act of 1864 (13 Stat. 356), Pacific Railroad Act of 1865 (13 Stat. 504), and Pacific Railroad Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 66).

The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 began federal government grant of lands directly to corporations; before that act, the land grants were made to the states, for the benefit of corporations.