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The British Columbia Railway Company (reporting mark BCOL, BCIT), commonly known as BC Rail, is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway ( PGE ), it was acquired by the provincial government in 1918.
Kelowna Pacific Railway: Okanagan Valley, British Columbia: 1999 - 2013: Entered receivership July 2013. CN once again operates a portion of the line. The Vernon to Kelowna portion is under abandonment procedures. Kettle Valley Railway: Midway BC to Hope BC, Southern Interior Route: 1915–1961, all except Penticton area until 1989: Acquired by ...
The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) was a historic railway which operated in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.Originally the parent company for, and later a division of, BC Electric Company (now BC Hydro), the BCER assumed control of existing streetcar and interurban lines in southwestern British Columbia in 1897, and operated the electric railway systems in the region until the ...
The history of an island railway [2] and a functioning island railway in perpetuity started with the colony of Vancouver Island joining British Columbia in 1866, Canadian Confederation in 1867, and the incorporation of British Columbia (BC) into Canada in 1871.
BC Rail: BCOL: Surrey to Roberts Bank Superport: Provincially owned: Terminal railway that is the last publicly managed portion of a formerly large scale system; the BC government still technically owns the North Vancouver to Prince George line, although it is leased to and managed by CN Englewood Railway: ER-WFP: Woss to Beaver Cove: Western ...
The B.B. and B.C. was taken over by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway and renamed the Bellingham and Northern in 1912. With the beginning of WWI in 1918, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway was required to drop the unique names of their many wholly owned subsidiaries and operate them under the parent company's name. The line ...
BC Immigrant Investment Fund [9] BC Systems Corporation (1977-1996) BC Provincial Capital Commission; BC Railway Company (operations and assets now privatized with CN Rail, though, shell company still exists) BC Transmission Corporation; British Columbia Utilities Commission; Community Social Services Employers' Association of BC
The last spike of the CNoR transcontinental railway was driven January 23, 1915, at Basque, British Columbia, [22] with Montreal-Vancouver freight and passenger services commencing six months later, [23] and providing a rail network in Nova Scotia, Southern Ontario, Minnesota, and on Vancouver Island. Between 1915 and 1918, CNoR tried ...