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Sig Lofstrom's Canadian Pacific Railway Journey to Portland

The Canadian Pacific railway from Quebec to Vancouver BC was completed in 1885, and the first transcontinental train (with two immigrant sleeper Colonial cars) left Montreal 1886 June 28, arriving in Port Moody on July 4.

By 1906, a southerly branch line ran from Medicine Hat, bypassing Calgary and Banff. The rail line follows (approximately) the route of east-west Canada highway 3, from the big rail yard at Medicine Hat, through Bow Island, Grassy Lake, Taber, Barnwell, Cranford, Coaldale, Lethbridge, Fort Macleod, Elko, Cranbrook, Moyle, Yahk, then the border at Kingsgate and Eastport.

The Spokane International Railway was funded by the Canadian Pacific, and passed southbound through Eastport Idaho, through Bonner's Ferry and Sandpoint Idaho, connecting to Spokane Washington. From Spokane, the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway travelled down to Kennewick Washington, then followed the northern shore of the Columbia River past Maryhill, the rail yards in Wishram, White Salmon, Stevenson, Washougal, Vancouver, the rail bridge over the Columbia (one mile east of the current I5 bridge, through Saint Johns, across the Willamette River, then through the northwest Portland industrial area to Union Station.

From an earlyCanadian Pacific railway timetable (with many small towns omitted), two west/south-bound trains per day to Yahk BC:

Canadian Pacific - A Brief History

J. Lorne McDougall, McGill University Press, 1968

PSU Lib HE 2810.C2 M183

• p2 North Bay, Ontario 360km north of Toronto

• p3 1901 added Canadian Northern to the prarie west 1916 extended to Vancouver
• p3 Northern Pacific Manitoba

This is about business development and management. I found no specifics about immigrant and passenger services.