The railway systems played an important part in Canada’s nation-building by opening up Canada’s west to increased settlement, while linking cities, ports and industries across this expansive territory. Key to Confederation were the completion of Atlantic Canada’s Intercolonial Railway in 1876 and Canada’s first transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), in 1885. This coin […]

The most famous dinosaur of all, the fearsome. Imagine the thrill of unearthing the teeth of a prehistoric creature – a monstrous, dragon-like beast, the likes of which the world had never before seen! This was the scene near Golden, Colorado in 1874, when the first tyrannosaur teeth, nearly a foot long, were discovered by […]