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[Destiny's Road]

Item number (ISN):

376697

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1984 ?

Item number (ISN):

376697

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN PACIFIC

Accession:

2006-0131

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1984 ?

Release date:

1984-05-08 ?

Production credit:

director, Russell E. Moore; producer, Arlene Atkins; executive producer, Charles Copelin; creative director/script, Allan G. Laing; photography, David Geddes; editing, Kari Skogland; narrator, Richard Thomas

Sponsor:

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Description:

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This is about the project to improve rail transportation in the Rogers Pass by building two new tunnels, a surface route and a ventilation shaft. The film begins with a discussion of the importance of rail transportation of goods to Western Canada and from there to Pacific Rim countries. This is important to promote the economic growth of Western Canada. Exports of natural resources depend on efficient transportation. CP Rail is a key element in this trade and hence in Canada's participation in global trade. Grain, potash, petrochemicals and sulphur are major exports. Various CP employees explain how CP Rail provides efficient transport of such goods through such means as its 111-car unit trains for carrying coal. Also discussed are impediments to efficient transport of goods, notably the Crowsnest Pass fixed freight rates that failed to cover the costs of the railways but were raised in 1983, and the bottleneck created between Calgary and Vancouver because of problems with the Rogers Pass. Omer Lavallee, Canadian Pacific's corporate historian and archivist, shows a model of the Bear Creek Valley and other terrain in the vicinity of the Rogers Pass and describes some of the history of the Pass, problems such as the danger of avalanches and the completion of the Connaught Tunnel in 1916 which enabled trains to bypass the dangerous route over the pass. The Rogers Pass project is now underway and is the largest CP Rail project since the construction of the transcontinental railway. <24mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. No proper title at head. Title taken from can label.~2. Can label also describes film as being "CP Rail Rogers Pass Project 1984".~3. Production date of 1984 based on date on can label (1984-05-08).~4. This concludes with the words "Rogers Pass Project 1984 CP Rail".

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Vault ISN:

429764

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-09-0150

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.4%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

429765

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-09-0151

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.4%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF
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