"What tempted the people of Canada to undertake so gigantic a work as the Canadian Pacific Railway?" asked the magazine, The Century, in 1885. Dreams of empire? Access to the Orient? The need for a trail of steel to build a nation and forge an economy? In fact, it was also these reasons and more. All are solidly in play today as CPR executives visualize their future.
Getting there will take ingenuity, which is the CPR clan's new rallying cry. Ingenuity, they say, has enabled them ...