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The complicated history of Vancouver Island’s railway corridor

The E&N Railway corridor has been cloaked in controversy since before the first spikes were even driven. Colonial powers essentially privatized roughly two million acres along southeast Vancouver Island in the 1880s to make way, in part, for rail. According to a report by the Crown Land Registry Services, British Columbia granted the land to […]

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