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University of Alberta: The Canadian Northern Western WebsiteUniversity of Alberta: The Canadian Northern Western Website
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University of Alberta
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9th - 10th
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University of Alberta: The Canadian Northern Western

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This brief history describes the evolution of the Canadian Northern Western Railway. German entrepreneur, Martin Nordegg was unable to convince The Canadian Pacific or Grand Trunk Pacific to build a line so he turned to the Canadian Northern Railway to invest and provided the transportation he needed to access some commercially profitable coal deposits on the eastern slopes of the Rockies.

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railroads, transportation

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rail transportation, railway maps, railways, alberta railways, cnor, canadian northern railway, canadian railroads, canadian railway history, canadian railways, martin nordegg, railways in western canada, canadian northern

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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