Canadian Northern Pacific Railway

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The Canadian Northern Pacific Railway was an historic Canadian railway with a main line running between Edmonton, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia. It was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Canadian Northern Railway

This railway existed mainly on paper, thus there were no cars or locomotives lettered as "Canadian Northern Pacific". As far as the public and most workers were concerned, it was just a part of the CNoR.

The CNoR maintained other subsidiary companies, such as the Alberta Midland Railway (Vegreville, Alberta to Drumheller, Alberta), and the Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway which ran from Strathcona, Alberta to Edmonton, and later to Stony Plain, Alberta.

These were all operated as part of the CNoR system and were taken over by the Crown upon nationalization in 1918.