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This beautifulreproduction poster has been re-mastered from a 1950’s advertising brochure forthe Canadian Pacific Railway, featuring trout fishing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.The vibrant colors and detail ofthis classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve agreat piece of history. The high-resolution, image is printed on 13″ x19″ archival photo paper, on a large-format professional-grade gicleprocess printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube and is readyfor framing.The 13″x19″ format is anexcellent image size that looks great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as agrouped visual statement. A wide variety of frames are readily available atyour local craft or hobby retailer, and online.A great vintage print for your home,shop, or business!Canadian Pacific Railway HistoryThe Canadian Pacific Railway was originallybuilt between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885(connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier),fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederationin 1871. It was Canada’s first transcontinental railway, but no longer reachesthe Atlantic coast. Primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades theonly practical means of long-distance passenger transport in most regions ofCanada, and was instrumental in the settlement and development of WesternCanada. The CPR became one of the largest andmost powerful companies in Canada, a position it held as late as 1975. Itsprimary passenger services were eliminated in 1986, after being assumed by ViaRail Canada in 1978. A beaver was chosen as the railway’s logo in honor of SirDonald A. Smith (1st. Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal) who had risen fromFactor to Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company over a lengthy career in thebeaver fur trade. Smith was a principal financier of the C.P.R. staking much ofhis personal wealth. In 1885, he drove the last spike to complete thetranscontinental line. The company acquired two American linesin 2009: the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad and the Iowa, Chicago andEastern Railroad. The trackage of the IC&E was at one-time part of CPsubsidiary Soo Line and predecessor line The Milwaukee Road. Thecombined DME/ICE system spanned North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,Wisconsin, Nebraska and Iowa, as well as two short stretches into two otherstates, which included a line to Kansas City, Missouri, and a line to Chicago,Illinois, and regulatory approval to build a line into the Powder River Basinof Wyoming. It is publicly traded on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and theNew York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP. Its U.S. headquarters are inMinneapolis.
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