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The naming along the CPR Line

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Listen as historian Merrily Aubrey explains how the CPR encouraged settlement in the west. The CPR naming committee looked overseas for inspiration and named all stops along the line out of Coronation, Alberta, in honour of the coronation of King George V.


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