It is the first major suspension of service in the E&N's 125-year history.

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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It is the first major suspension of service in the E&N's 125-year history.

Via Rail bus service coming to a halt

Comox Logging and Railway Company started logging its 60,000-acre property north of Courtenay

Mackie’s focus on history

Beyond the Valley: Comox Logging Moves Down-island

Noted historian at Comox Museum's AGM

would replace a 30-year-old swing bridge that had carried only trains and, I'm sure, the occasional pedestrian.

Dave Obee: Ninety years later, another bridge vote

If you want to track history on southern Vancouver Island, it's not that hard to do.

Dave Obee: Plenty of history along our old rail lines

Trees of two and three feet diameter now grow up on this former narrow gauge railway grade from the turn of the last century

Our history is under siege and disappearing

More News Items on the Nanaimo Train Station

Station rebuild in jeopardy

Train station may be demolished

the E&N Railway station, which remains damaged from a 2007 fire.

Our disappearing heritage: 'Out with the old, in with the new' habit erases remnants of Nanaimo's history

Second book in trilogy about Comox logging

This book sees the forest and the trees

Victoria BC Bridge's future up for debate

Hard choices on bridge's future.

Vancouver Island property is not up for dicussion.

Government responds to rights complaint