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President. C. Stephen Cheasley. Owner. Canadian Railroad Historical Association. Website. exporail .org. The Canadian Railway Museum ( French: (Le) Musée ferroviaire canadien ), operating under the brand name Exporail in both official languages, is a rail transport museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec, Canada, on Montreal 's south shore .
CN Rail created some early hopes with the UAC TurboTrain, in its Toronto–Montreal route during the 1960s. The TurboTrain was a true HST, achieving speeds as high as 201 km/h (125 mph) in regular service. The Turbo went 225 km/h (140 mph) in a speed run April 26, 1976 [7] and may have attained even higher speeds in test runs in 1968–69.
According to the 2021 census by Statistics Canada, 1,547,870 Canadians identified as Black, constituting 4.3% of the entire Canadian population. [8] Of the black population, 10 per cent identified as mixed-race of "white and black". [9] The five most black-populated provinces in 2021 were Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba ...
The real question is, do hedgehogs make good pets or not? The short answer is, yes, they can - but there's a catch. Actually, there's several big catches, which is why we should break this ...
Adult correctional facilities in Ontario are divided into four categories: correctional centres, jails, detention centres, and treatment centres. Some facilities are more than one type. Correctional centres house sentenced offenders who are serving a period of incarceration of up to two years, less a day. [ a] Provincial jails (historically ...
The Royal Canadian Mint ( French: Monnaie royale canadienne) is the mint of Canada and a Crown corporation, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act. The shares of the Mint are held in trust for the Crown in right of Canada . The Mint produces all of Canada's circulation coins, [ 3] and manufactures circulation coins on behalf of other nations.
LGBTQ2+ National Monument. The LGBTQ2+ National Monument is a planned public monument in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, dedicated to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirit communities in Canada. [ 1] The monument was launched by the LGBT Purge Fund, an organization created from the 2018 settlement of the class action ...
The National Gallery of Canada ( French: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada ), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. [8] The museum's building takes up 46,621 square metres (501,820 sq ft), with 12,400 square metres (133,000 sq ft) of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the largest art museums in ...