The Port Moody Station Museum is a very important and interesting historical site. It is a direct link to B. C.'s past. Without the railway, who knows what Canada would look like today.
To learn a little about the importance of the railway, take a few minutes to view the video titled 'Forging the National Dream'. After viewing the video, go to the comment section and write one fact that you learned from watching the video.
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I have been on lots of trains. I've been on the Canadian - the Via train across Canada, the Rocky Mountainerr to Calgary and E&N on Vancouver Island and I've also biked over train trestles in the Kettle Valley. Trestles are wooden bridges the criss-cross all across a valley. My Great Grandmother came across Canada on a train as a war bride, this was in 1945.
Maia
That was a lovely review of the field trip. The Port Moody Station Museum has a Blog and I posted your review there. If anyone wants they can post a comment there. It is called "The Port Moody Station Museum Blog" I am not sure if a link will show here in the comments.
http://portmoodystationmuseum.blogspot.com/2009/10/report-after-field-trip-to-museum.html
I thought the quote "railways are my politics" by Francis Hinks was most interesting because the
confederation of Canada rested on the success of
railways.
IZB
I wonder how many children realize that when Port Moody was built there was no highway or road through the mountains to what is now Eastern Canada or the Prairie Provinces? The British Corp of Engineers who were sent here to do a lot of the work founding Port Moody had to travel by ship around the Southern tip of South America by ship to reach Port Moody!
Chinese workers helped build the railway which bound the whole country together.
Kenneth
I learned that there was a railway from Montreal to New York.
The Grand Trunk Railway, completed in 1856, between Toronto and Montreal made the trip possible to do in a matter of hours rather than the week it normally took.
I sure wish I could have gone on this trip but I did learn a lot from what my mom read to me about how the CPR started. I love trains and used to play with Thomas the tank engine all the time. Nicole
the train was invented in 1876.
Trains were very important for travelling way back in the 19th and early 20th century.
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