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How Early Canadian Railways Helped Invent National Cinema – and Why That Origin Story Still Shapes Film Narratives

April 14, 2026April 14, 2026The Bottom LineCanadian Railways, Cinema, Government, Movies

If you want to see why Canadian films return so often to distance, landscape, hard weather, and long travel, the railway is the right place to start. Finished in 1885 after construction began in 1881,

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