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Hell's Gate was named by Simon Fraser (he of the Fraser River fame) in 1808. He described the narrow passage as an "awesome gorge" and proclaimed "surely this is the gate of hell". Then over a hundred years later, it became more so. Whilst building the Canadian Northern Railway thousands of tonnes of rock were balasted into the river, narrowing it even further. This is as good a time as any to mention that there are actually two train lines along the Fraser River - we were on the Canadian Pacific which was the original. The Canadian Northern was built in response to the monopoly the CPR had, but was a financial failure and had to be nationalised in 1918 and in 1920 became part of Canadian National Railways. Because both lines are mostly single tracked with few sidings, at this stage they seemed to be run in conjunction with each other. Westbound trains appeared to use the CN line whilst eastbound ones like ours used the CP line. This would continue until the community of Basque where the two lines split and appeared to have no more links. |
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| Source | Hell's Gate |
| Author | Andrew Bowden from London, United Kingdon |
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