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Our Town

Our Town: Railways

Apr 27, 2023 | 3:11 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB–Medicine Hat was built where it is, because this is where the Canadian Pacific Railway chose to bridge the South Saskatchewan river in 1883.

The CPR was the first and over the ensuing years there were lots of reports and rumours that other railways would follow but it never happened.

Brian Konrad has more in this edition of Our Town: