Railway Histories - C

Calais and St Stephen Railway Bridge Co. 1882

Calais Street Railway

Caledonia Coal and Railway, Caledonia (NS)
Caledonia Mine to Port Caledonia, 2 1/4 miles, opened 1868. The harbour at Port Caledonia was abandoned in 1893 and a railway was built from Caledonia Junction to a connection with the Glace bay Mining Company near the Sterling Mine. It was purchased by the Dominion Coal Company on 1 March 1894 and the railway became part of the Sydney and Louisburg Railway. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

Caledonia Mines Railway (NS)

Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company

Calgary Electric Railway

Calgary Municipal Railway

Calgary Transit Authority

Campbell River Lumber Company Railway

Campbell River Mills Railway

Campbellford, Lake Ontario and Western Railway Company

Campbellton (NS)

Canada Air Line Railway Company

Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway Company

Canada Atlantic Railway Company

Canada Central Railway Company

Canada Coals and Railroad Company

Canada Coals and Railway Company, 1892 (NS)

Canada Crushed and Cut Stone Ltd

Canada Crushed Stone

Canada Department of Justice Railway

Canada Eastern Railway 1902 (see Northern and Western Railway)

Canada Railway and Coal 1872

Canadian American Railroad Company

Canadian Atlantic Railway 1989? (operating division of CPRS)

Canadian Car and Foundry, Amherst (NS)

Canadian Copper Company

Canadian Forest Products Railway

Canadian Government Railways, organized 1918 (not incorporated)

Canadian Gypsum, Dimmock (NS)

Canadian Gypsum, Wentworth (NS)

Canadian Gypsum, Windsor (NS)

Canadian Industries Railway

Canadian National Electric Railways

Canadian National Railway 1919

Canadian North Eastern Railway Company

Canadian North West Irrigation Company

Canadian Northeastern Railway Company

Canadian Northern Alberta Railway Company

Canadian Northern Branch Lines Co

Canadian Northern Consolidated Railways

Canadian Northern Manitoba Railway Company

Canadian Northern Montreal Tunnel and Terminal Company Ltd

Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Company

Canadian Northern Pacific Railway Company

Canadian Northern Quebec Railway Company

Canadian Northern Railway Company, organized 1899

Canadian Northern Saskatchewan Railway Company

Canadian Northern Western Railway Company

Canadian Pacific Car and Transfer Company

Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Canadian Puget Sound Lumber and Timber Company Railway

Canadian Refractories Ltd

Canadian Robert Dollar Railway

Canadian Terminal Railway 1907

Canton and Grand Lake 1916

Cap de la Madeleine Railway Company

Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway

Cape Breton Coal, Iron and Railway, Broughton (NS)
Broughton Junction to Broughton, 2 miles, Broughton Junction to False bay Head, 2 1/2 miles. Built 1905 and completed in 1906. The entire project was abandoned in 1907 owing, it is said, to the emnity of the Dominion Coal Company which would not allow its Sydney and Louisburg Railway to handle the output of the mine. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

Cape Breton Collieries

Cape Breton Development Corporation Railway, 1968? (NS)

Cape Breton Electric Co

Cape Breton Electric Tramway and Power Co, 1900 (NS)

Cape Breton Railway Company Ltd (NS)
Name of Cape Breton Railway Extension Company Ltd, 1901

Cape Breton Railway Extension Company Ltd, 1899 (NS)

Cape Breton Tramways Co

Capilano Timber Company Line

Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway 1911

Caraquet Railway 1874

Carillon and Grenville Railway Company

Carleton, City of Saint John Branch Railroad 1870

Carol Mining Division, Iron Ore Company of Canada

Cartier Railway Company, 1957

Cassandra Tramway (NF)

Cavicchi and Pagano, Dartmouth (NS)

Central and North-Eastern Railway 1890

Central Canada Railway Company

Central Counties Railway Company

Central Ontario Railway Company

Central Railway Company, 1871 (NB)

Central Railway Company, 1891 (NS)

Central Vermont Railroad Company, 1872 (US)

Central Vermont Railway Inc

Central Western Railway Company

Chateauguay and Northern Railway Company

Chatham Branch Railway 1870

Chatham Railway Company 1870

Chatham Street Railway Ltd

Chatham, Wallaceburg and Lake Erie Railway Company

Chaudiere Valley Railway Company

Cheakamus Timber Railway

Chemin de fer Bale des Chaleurs

Chemin de fer de Lanaudiere

Chemin de fer de Port Joliette

Cheticamp Gypsum and Plaster, Cheticamp (NS)

Chignecto Marine Transport Railway, 1882 Chignecto (NS)

Chignecto Railway Company 1840

Chilkoot Railroad and Transport Company

Chinook Coal Company Railway

City and Suburban Electric Railway Company

City Railway Company of Windsor

Clayburn Coal Railway

Clyde Colliery, Caledonia (NS)
Clyde Colliery to Port Caledonia, 1/2 mile. Light narrow gauge tramway built on along trestle along the beach to Port Caledonia in 1871. Purchased by Dominion Coal on 1 March 1894 and the Sydney and Louisburg built a branch to the mine - the tramway was abandoned. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

CN North America

Coal Creek Railway

Coast Railway, 1893 (NS)

Cobourg and Peterborough Railway Company

Cobourg, Blairton and Marmora Railway and Mining Company

Cobourg, Peterborough and Marmara Railway and Mining Company

Colchester Coal and Railway (NS)

Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company

Columbia and Western Railway Company

Columbia River Lumber Company Railway

Columbia River Railway

Combine Mining Company Railway

Commercial Electric Company 1895

Comox Logging and Railway Company

Company of Proprietors of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad

Connecticut Adamant Plaster, Walton (NS)

Connecticut Adamont Plaster Company (NS)

Consolidated Electric Company 1892

Consolidated European and North American 1875

Consolidated Mining and Smelting Railway

Consolidated Railroad Company of Vermont (US)

Consolidated Railway and Light Co

Consolidated Railway Company

Cook Construction, Halifax (NS)

Corbin Coal and Coke Company Railway

Cornell Mine Tramway

Cornwall Electric Street Railway Company

Cornwall Street Railway, Light and Power Company

Cornwallis Valley Railway, 1887 (NS)

Coteau and Province Line Railway and Bridge Company

CP Rail

CP Rail Systems

Credit Valley Railway Company

Crown Gypsum Company Railway

Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Company

Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company Railway

Crow's Nest Pass Lumber Company Railway

Cumberland Coal and Railway, 1883 (NS)

Cumberland Railway and Coal, Springhill (NS)
Formed in 1884 by the amalgamation of the Cumberland Coal and Railway and the Springhill and Parrsboro Coal and Railway. Came under the control of the Dominion Steel Co. in 1910. The name was changed to Cumberland Railway in 1960-1 and it was acquired by the Cape Breton Development Corp. in 1967-8. [Provided by Colin Churcher.]

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