Intercolonial Railway: Crown Corporations and Atlantic Provinces

intercolonial railway: Fleming was such a one, according to Hamilton Spectator. As was the Intercolonial Railway, the route of which he plotted through the wilds of Eastern Canada to connect the Atlantic provinces with Ontario and Quebec. With the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017 comes reason to recall the myriad acts of union across decades, and the names and accomplishments that were the glory of their times. It was called The People's Railway and was, in effect, Canada's first national infrastructure project and one of the young country's first Crown corporations. To make that happen, Macdonald and associates turned to Fleming, a prolifically imaginative and energetic migr from Kirkcaldy, Scotland, just across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. That railway was one of Sir John A. Macdonald's chief enticements to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and one of the conditions of Confederation, agreed to with the signatures of a few dozen Fathers of Confederation in 1867. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.