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Training Squadron 86 is known by several names: TRARON EIGHT SIX, VT-86, or the Sabrehawks, a name derived from its history of flying the T-39D/G/N Sabreliner and the TA-4J Skyhawk II. The squadron was established on 5 June 1972, under the operational control of Commander, Training Air Wing EIGHT (TRAWING 8) at Naval Air Station Glynco , Georgia.
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Alberta, British Columbia: 1929-1981: Acquired by NAR. Albion Mines Railway: Pictou County, Nova Scotia: 1829-c.1890: First railway and first use of metal rails in British North America; horse-drawn until 1838. Abandoned. Algoma Central Railway: Algoma and Cochrane Districts, Northeastern Ontario: 1899–1995: Acquired by WC. Algoma Eastern Railway
Various mining and industrial operations in Canada have also operated narrow-gauge railways. Almost all rail gauge in Canada is standard gauge. By 2015, the only remaining narrow-gauge system in Canada was the White Pass and Yukon Route, which used some of the rolling stock of the Newfoundland Railway which closed in the late 1980s.
The terms of union required that, within two years, the federal government was to start the construction of a railway from the "seaboard of British Columbia", joining the new province and Victoria with the railway system of Canada. On its part, British Columbia was to grant a band of public land of up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) in width along ...
Fort Rodd Hill, originally built in the 19th century to defend Victoria and CFB Esquimalt [4; Albert Head, 9.2-inch guns, counter bombardment battery during WWII ; Mary Hill ...
Sandon is in the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The near ghost town lies off BC Highway 31A, [1] and is at the confluence of Sandon Creek [2] into Carpenter Creek. [3] By road, the place is about 14 kilometres (9 mi) east of New Denver and 43 kilometres (27 mi) west of Kaslo.
The Chilcotin Plateau is part of the Fraser Plateau, a major subdivision of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia.The Chilcotin Plateau is physically near-identical with the region of the same name, i.e. "the Chilcotin", which lies between the Fraser River and the southern Coast Mountains and is defined by the basin of the Chilcotin River and so includes montane areas beyond the plateau.