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Grand Trunk Railway
- Migration and Towns
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The route connected Montreal to Portland through towns like Richmond (Canada), Island Pond (Vermont), Berlin (New Hampshire), and South Paris (Maine). The Grand Trunk was built when large-scale industry began to be developed in southern Maine. Demand for shoes and clothes during the Civil War, at a time when Maine's population was lowered by war enlistements and out-migration, led to a demand for more workers. Many came from Canada. For example, the Grand Trunk Railway brought workers along a spur line to Lewiston, where they readily found work in the area's textile mills and developed one of the largest centers of French-Canadian culture in Maine.
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Railroad Engine Number 40, built in 1872, in Portland, Maine, for use on the Grand Trunk Railway.
(Nick et Helma Mika, Railways of Canada : A Pictorial History, Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, 1972.) |
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