Show T UA I I I FIRST hAILtl > IN CANADA I Primitive Road i I Train Was Run Over I bed In 1836 I The list railway In Canada was tho I Champlaln and St Lawrence railway which ran from Laprnlrio on the St Lawrence river eight miles above Montreal to St Johns on the lUcite lien a distance of 14 II miles Iho company of proprietors ot the Champlain I Cham-plain nml St Lawrence Hallway was Incorporated on February 25 1832 hut work was not begun until 1835 Ian I July 21 1830 tho first train was run over the road A few days before an accident had happened to the little engine and It was deemed advisable to attach to It only two of the passenger passen-ger cats while tho others were drawn each by two horses Some three hundred hun-dred persons Including the Karl of Gosford and other high officials were piesent by Invitation of the directors to take their first trip over n Canadian Canadi-an railway Next day when tho engine I en-gine had been repaired It effected the journey to St Johns with two passengers I I pas-sengers and two loaded freight earn In fortyfive minutes and returned In consisted of the englnf of from five to six tons four passenger cars each carrying eight persons and twenty freight cars capable of convoying about ten tons each The engine cost c 1500 and the cars c 1000 Tho cost of the road itself was estimated at 33000 The rails wore of wood with Hat lion spiked to them and as far as any degree of smooth conveyance convey-ance was concerned similar conditions condi-tions today would by no means suit twentieth century requirements Tho teal epoch however during which railway construction In Canada had Its serious beginning was between 1853 and 1S5C |