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University of Alberta: The Coal Branch WebsiteUniversity of Alberta: The Coal Branch Website
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University of Alberta
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University of Alberta: The Coal Branch

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The early railways depended on coal to fire their locomotives. Vast deposits of coal were located along the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies. One of the richest mining areas on the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, became known as the Coal Branch supplying coal to most of the railways in the prairie provinces. This is a brief history that also provides primary source resources in the the form of photographs, excerpts, figures and maps relating to the development of The Grand Trunk railway in western Canada.

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railroads

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canadian railway history, canadian railways, gtr, grand truck railway, grand trunk, the grand trunk pacific railway, railway development in western canada

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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