Historical Canadian Railroads

Historical Canadian railway lines, places, and transactions in GIS formats. HR_rails_NEW contains historical railway lines with dates of activity. Modified from a proprietary dataset produced by ESRI Canada. hr_places_all was also created from an ESRI base layer. Points were repositioned using the ESRI base as reference, and new points were also added from the railway atlas.This set of place names was used as an intermediary layer when making the final dataset of railway lines. The places named are points where railway construction dates change.