Until the decision was (1)___ to close it in the early 1990s, the Canadian Pacific was for many years the world's greatest rail (2)___. Built over a hundred years ago at tremendous (3)___ cost, it stretched 2,887 miles from Montreal to the Pacific (4)___, crossing dense pine forests and massive mountains. The line was cut through (5)___ rock by 30,000 men working in huge areas of (6)___ country, often in terrible weather conditions. In many ways, Canada is a nation that was (7)___ by railways. Western cities like Calgary would not exist if the trains had not passed (8)___ there, and that long thin line was what once (9)___ such hugely different places as Newfoundland on the Atlantic with Vancouver on the Pacific. Another victim of air (10)___ that is both cheaper and easier. Eastern Canadians, (11)___ their American neighbours, do not feel drawn towards the west. When it is (12)___ zero in Toronto or Quebec they fly south to the Caribbean rather than freeze in Winnipeg.

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