At 9 p.m. on Feb. 28, 1885, George Longley arrived at Bonaventure Station in Montreal. For the past few years, he had been working as a porter and conductor for the Grand Trunk Railway, and this trip to Montreal was one he made many times before...
In the early history of Canada, the rivers were our highways. Voyageurs, ships and settlers moved along our rivers to get where they needed to go. The importance of rivers can be seen in the fact that when the Hudson’s Bay Company received its Royal...
At Montreal, there is a bridge that spans the St. Lawrence River and may seem relatively normal, as far as bridges go. Running for three kilometres, with 24 ice-breaking piers, this bridge is far from normal. When it was built, a decade before...