Editing Canadian Pacific Railway (section)

===1901–1914===
[[File:Canadian Pacific Ry free farms 1893.jpg|thumb|upright|CPR advertisement highlighting "Free Farms for the Million" in western Canada, circa 1893]]
During the first decade of the 20th century, the CPR continued to build more lines.  In 1908, the CPR opened a line connecting Toronto with [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]]. Several operational improvements were also made to the railway in Western Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forthjunction.com/dawe-cpr-bridge.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922131727/http://www.forthjunction.com/dawe-cpr-bridge.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 September 2010|title=Canadian Pacific Railway Bridge now 100 years old|publisher=Red Deer Advocate|date=19 March 2010|access-date=1 December 2012|author=Dawe, Michael|page=34}}</ref>

[[File:Lethbridge High Level.jpg|thumb|upright|Lethbridge Viaduct]]

On November 3, 1909, the [[Lethbridge Viaduct]] over the [[Oldman River]] valley at [[Lethbridge]], Alberta, was opened. It is {{convert|1624|m|ft|abbr=off}} long and, at its maximum, {{convert|96|m|ft|abbr=off}} high, making it one of the longest railway bridges in Canada. In 1916, the CPR replaced its line through [[Rogers Pass (British Columbia)|Rogers Pass]], which was prone to [[avalanche]]s (the [[1910 Rogers Pass avalanche|most serious of which]] killed 62 men in 1910) with the [[Connaught Tunnel (British Columbia)|Connaught Tunnel]], an eight-kilometre-long (5-mile) tunnel under [[Mount Macdonald]]<ref name="Murray2011">{{cite book|author=Tom Murray|title=Rails Across Canada: The History of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vf7efnxi1XwC|year=2011|publisher=MBI Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-61060-139-9|page=67}}</ref> that was, at the time of its opening, the longest railway tunnel in the [[Western Hemisphere]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdnrail.railfan.net/RogersPass/RogersPasstext.htm|title=Rogers Pass a History of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Trans-Canada Highway crossing.|website=cdnrail.railfan.net|access-date=2016-05-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railfame.ca/sec_ind/technology/en_2003_MountMacdonaldTunnel.asp#|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620072230/http://railfame.ca/sec_ind/technology/en_2003_MountMacdonaldTunnel.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-06-20|title=Canadian Railway Hall of Fame |website=railfame.ca|access-date=2016-05-09}}</ref>

[[File:Canadian Pacific Railroad 1.jpg|thumb|left|C.P.R. railway locomotive 2860]]

On January 21, 1910, a [[Spanish River derailment|passenger train derailed]] on the CPR line at the [[Spanish River (Ontario)|Spanish River]] bridge at [[Nairn, Ontario]] (near [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]]), killing at least 43.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tApXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_UINAAAAIBAJ&pg=2107,421404 "Soo train goes into the river"], ''Evening Sentinel'', 22 January 1910</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FfRhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tJIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7184,1782336 "Train derailed on bridge"], ''The Age'', 25 January 1910.</ref>

On January 3, 1912, the CPR acquired the [[Dominion Atlantic Railway]], a railway that ran in western [[Nova Scotia]]. This acquisition gave the CPR a connection to [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], a significant port on the Atlantic Ocean. The CPR acquired the [[Quebec Central Railway]] on December 14, 1912.<ref name="dormanstoltz"/>

During the late 19th century, the railway undertook an ambitious program of hotel construction, building Glacier House in [[Glacier National Park (Canada)|Glacier National Park]], [[Mount Stephen House]] at [[Field, British Columbia]], the [[Château Frontenac]] in [[Quebec City]] and the [[Banff Springs Hotel]]. By then, the CPR had competition from three other transcontinental lines, all of them money-losers. In 1919, these lines were consolidated into the government-owned [[Canadian National Railways]].<ref>[http://www.shmp.qc.ca/empress/detail/empressdetailen.html Pointe-au-Père Site historique maritime profike] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719075005/http://www.shmp.qc.ca/empress/detail/empressdetailen.html |date=19 July 2013 }}. Retrieved 27 April 2014.</ref>