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The Victoria Railway is a historic long Canadian railway that operated in Central Ontario. Construction under Chief Engineer James Ross began in 1874 from Lindsay, Ontario, with authority to build through Victoria County to Haliburton, Ontario, to which it opened on .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Victoria Railway )〕 The line is best known as having been built by a large group of Icelandic immigrants, who found the Kinmount winters too rough, and so they all moved to Gimli, Manitoba. The line became part of the Midland Railway of Canada and then later part of the Canadian National Railways. The line was abandoned completely by the early 1990s.〔 ==Timeline==
* 1871: Formation of the Fenelon Falls Railway Company * 1872: Renamed as the Lindsay, Fenelon Falls and Ottawa River Railway Company * 1873: Renamed as the Victoria Railway Company〔, subsequently amended by 〕 * 1880: Acquisition by the Midland Railway of Canada * 1882: Consolidation of the Victoria Railway Company, the Midland Railway of Canada, the Toronto and Nipissing Railway, the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway, the Toronto and Ottawa Railway and the Grand Junction Railway.
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