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wine train rides brought to you by Alberni Pacific Railway

Sept 13 2009

All Aboard!! Wine Steam Train Leads you to Chase & Warren Estate Winery

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Perhaps someone could look into the E&N railway on Vancouver Island

may 21 2009

Leading the way

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Metro backs garbage trains to U.S.

April 24th 2009

Vancouver Island that proposes to incinerate garbage at a former pulp mill to generate electricity,

 

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"The Nanaimo - Esquimalt Rail and the Fraser Valley rail systems are subject to big studies

April 11 2009

Fraser residents renew push for light rail

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Steam train returns home and Transit gets a looking at.

April 11 2009

Flood of funding belies economic woes

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Ministry of Transportation study of the E&N railway corridor for commuter and freight rail.

April 09 2009

BC Transit focuses on corridor to West Shore

 

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Easter Weekend

April 04 2009

Duncan Forestry Museum- Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Thrifty Foods Sunday April 12th

 

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Save Those Kellog's Boxs

April 02 2009

The Railway and Forestry Museum is participating

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E&N Trail

April 02 2009

View Royal reveals Island Highway overhaul plans

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Nanaimos 10 Worst Intersections

April 02 2009

The 10 worst intersections that give us fits

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Vancouver Island property is not up for dicussion.

March 31 2009

Government responds to rights complaint

Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group members say 270,000 hectares of traditional territory were illegally confiscated from them as part of the 1884 E&N Railway grant. The Vancouver Island property is now privately owned and not up for discussion at the trea…

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Railways from Vancouvers Past

March 28th 2009

Excavation moved half a million yards

An interesting read on how the railways shaped parts of Vancouver BC.

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New Rail News

March 14th 2009

Rail needed to move massive transformers

Undertaking shows value of railway, say Island supporters

 

By Darrell Bellaart, The Daily News

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E&N Still waits

March 12 2009

Vancouver Island left out of $174 million in funding for highways

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Vancouver Island Rail News #2

March 09 2009

The WFI sawmill operated until 1981 Was One Of The Largest On Vancouver Island

March 09 2009

Trans Canada Trail work in town this summer CVRD Will Widen CP Rail Route, Install Signs

March 04 2009

Treaty Group getting set for Human Rights hearing

 

 

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