(thing) by Lord Brawl Mon Oct 30 2000 at 0:58:19

  1. The Canadian Press, formed in 1917 by newspaper publishers to share news of World War I across Canada. It is still in operation today, jointly owned by Canada's daily papers. The mark (CP) appears at the front of Canadian Press stories.
  2. Canadian Pacific, founded in 1881 to build a transcontinental railway from Eastern Canada to the Pacific Coast. The railway was completed in 1885. The company today has its headquarters in Calgary and is involved in rail, shipping, petroleum, coal, hotels and many other endeavours.1
    For more on the construction of the railway, see Pierre Berton's books The National Dream and The Last Spike.

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