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The Canadian Pacific Railway is a line of railway which traverses British North America from the St Lawrence to the Pacific. One of the conditions upon which the province of British Columbia in 1871 entered the Dominion of Canada was the construction of such a railway. Since that time more than one act had been passed empowering different companies to go on with the work. Eventually, however, it was completed, according to arrangement with the Canadian government, by a syndicate of London, Paris, and American capitalists, being opened for general traffic in June, 1886. Commencing at Montreal, the line goes on to Ottawa, thence round the north of the Great Lakes to Port Arthur at the head of Lake Superior, and thence to Winnipeg, Manitoba, thence to Stephen in the Rocky Mountains, then across British Columbia to Vancouver on the Pacific. Vancouver, now a thriving city, owes its existence to this railway. The line was of great importance not only as a means of communication between Europe and Eastern Asia and Australasia, but also as a military highway binding together the great masses of the British Empire during the late 19th century.
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The Crees are a North American Indian tribe of Algonquin stock and speech. They were divided into the Thickwood or Swampy Crees inhabiting the region between Hudson Bay and Lake Winnipeg; and the Plain or Prairie Crees who occupied the open country towards the Rocky Mountains. Traditionally they were at war with the Blackfoot Indians, but with the coming of the Europeans became fur traders trading furs with the Hudson Bay Company.
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Douglas Rain is a Canadian actor. He was born in 1928 at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Jack Kruschen was a Canadian actor. He was born in 1922 at Winnipeg, Manitoba and died in 2002.
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Jay Brazeau is a Canadian actor, writer and composer. He was born in 1953 at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Lee Montgomery is a Canadian actor. He was born in 1961 at Winnipeg.
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Len Cariou is a Canadian actor and singer. He was born in 1939 at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Anna Paquin is a Canadian actress. She was born in 1982 at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Carla Lehmann was a Canadian actress. She was born in 1917 at Winnipeg, Manitoba and died in 1990.
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Deanna Durbin is a Canadian actress. She was born in 1921 at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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