THUNDER BAY, ON, Aug. 4, 2017 /CNW/ - Canadian Pacific
invites local media and the public to attend the CP Canada 150
Train community event.
What: CP Canada 150 Train
event
When: August 6, 2017 - 3-6
p.m. (show starts at approximately 4
p.m.)
Where: Marina Park, Bobby
Curtola Drive
Full event details, including on site activities,
available at http://www.cpr.ca/en/community/canada-150/thunder-bay.
Please add this event to your community events calendar.
Media is encouraged to share our Facebook event
(https://www.facebook.com/events/1799783150338293/)
and engage on social media @CanadianPacific using
#ConnectingCanada.
Facts about CP in this city
- On June 1st, 1875, Judge
Van Norman turned the first sod on
the construction of the Pacific Railway, what would become part of
the CPR, at a location on the left bank of the Kaministiquia River,
about six kilometres from Fort William, now Thunder Bay.
- Before completion of the all-rail route around
Lake Superior in May 1885, westbound passengers boarded CPR ships
at Owen Sound and sailed via the
North Channel of Lake Huron and
across Lake Superior to Port
Arthur. Upon completion of the mainline, the summer-time lake route
was sustained by tourist traffic.
- Today, CP employs approximately 170 people in
Thunder Bay.
- Even though the Eastern Time zone starts at Upsala, the railway operates on central time
all the way to Thunder
Bay.
Please send requests to speak to a CP spokesperson
to Alert_MediaRelations@cpr.ca. If media are planning
on attending, please RSVP to
Alert_MediaRelations@cpr.ca.
SOURCE Canadian Pacific