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In 1884, CPR began purchasing sailing ships as part of a railway supply service on the Great Lakes.Over time, CPR became a railroad company with widely organized water transportation auxiliaries including the CPR Upper Lake Service, the trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Steamships, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the trans-Atlantic service, and the Ferry service.
Name Launch year Maiden voyage Other names Notes Loss year Canadian Pacific Railway (1884–1915) 1887 SS Abyssinia [1] 1870 1870 . Australia route [2] 1891 1887 SS Parthia [3] 1870 1870 . Australia route [2] 1956 1887 SS Batavia [4] 1870 1870 . Australia route [2] 1924 1891 RMS Empress of China [5] 1890 1891 . Pacific, 1891–1911 1912 1891
In 1884, CPR began purchasing sailing ships as part of a railway supply service on the Great Lakes.Over time, CPR became a railroad company with widely organized water transportation auxiliaries including the Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Service (Great Lakes), the trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Service, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the trans-Atlantic ...
The Upper Lakes Shipping Company was a Canadian shipping company that maintained a fleet of lake freighters on the North American Great Lakes from 1931 to 2011. [1] The company was privately owned. In February 2011 the company sold its fleet to Algoma Central .
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In 1884, CPR began purchasing sailing ships as part of a railway supply service on the Great Lakes.Over time, CPR became a railroad company with widely organized water transportation auxiliaries including the Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Service, the Trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Steamships, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the Trans-Atlantic service, and ...
While railway vehicles can be and are shipped on the decks or in the holds of ordinary ships, purpose-built train ferries can be quickly loaded and unloaded by roll-on/roll-off, especially as several vehicles can be loaded or unloaded at once. A train ferry that is a barge is called a car float or rail barge. Some train ferries are considered ...
It is also one of the most eastern points on the upper lakes, as well as the shortest straight-line distance to the many rail lines that already ran to the Ottawa area. CP's first attempt to address the lake trade was an 1891 plan to extend the Atlantic and North-West Railway (A&NW) to Parry Sound from its existing terminus outside Ottawa at ...