In message , Mark Brader
writes
Ian Jelf:
(The company ran the original Toronto - Montreal line before Canada
became a Dominion as such when Ontario and Quebec were the provinces
of Upper and Lower Canada respectively. It was an important factor
in joining the two very different provinces.)

Canadian history nitpick: Upper and Lower Canada were already history
when the Grand Trunk was started in the 1850s.
My apologies, Mark. It *was* late when I wrote it and it's a *long*
time since I had to write essays about the parti bleu and parti rouge
and so on!

Sorry if I sounded like an uninformed Imperialist! ;-))
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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