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  • Edward Island and Newfoundland, with Canada by means of what has since been called the "Intercolonial" Railway.

    Canada and the States 1860

  • For instance, an "Intercolonial" Railway -- constructed so as to serve many local, but no grand through, purposes; constructed to satisfy local interests, or, probably, local political needs -- has been built.

    Canada and the States 1860

  • Intercolonial discourses occurred in numerous sociopolitical dimensions for more than one agenda.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • Intercolonial discourse centering on issues of women's rights and reform was, at times, explored from both a Western and Eastern stance.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • Canada had a lurid history; rebellions in 1837, - the Governor General pelted with rotten eggs in 1849, the Grand Trunk scandals punctuating the 1850's, and the crowning touch-the Canadian treachery after the Intercolonial Railway negotiations of 1862.

    New Brunswick: Fashioning A New Hope 1967

  • Next, he had to find money to build the Intercolonial pledged to the Maritimes and the Pacific railway planned for the West.

    MacDonald's Greatness in His Times 1965

  • Thus we learn that a short railway, connecting with the Intercolonial, will convey us thither, though not a road intended for passenger service.

    Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

  • Newfoundland, connecting by steamers with Britain or Ireland on the one hand, and the Intercolonial and Canadian lines on the other.

    Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor John Fretwell

  • It is usually irritating to arrive at the station on time for a train on the Intercolonial Railway.

    The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

  • Did ever passenger travel along the Intercolonial "with soul so dead" as not to be stirred with a sense of the beautiful as he neared this delightful spot.

    Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

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