Imagine if train nerds had built railways in this country instead of corrupt capitalists.

Imagine if people had access to Transport Fever or OpenTTD and could actually imagine what it was like to build the railways.

Imagine if there was actually a bridge to Vancouver Island and not a railway being built to where it wasn't intended to go.

Imagine if there weren't thousands of kilometres of stone you have to dig through to just get a third of the way to the Pacific Ocean from Ontario.

Yeah. The Canadian Pacific Railway was being built on hard mode.

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Shawinigan Moments is written and recorded on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō (Stolo), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) first nations in what is otherwise called Vancouver.

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Frank Ney. That name is infamous in British Columbia politics not because of his real estate efforts but because of how he as mayor put on a pirate persona and ruled over the lands of Nanaimo for over two decades. His terror led to forcing people to race boats made out of bathtubs with meagre engines between Vancouver Island and the City of Vancouver.

In this episode, we're talking about the world famous bathtub races. That's right. Bathtub racing. It's real, it's a thing, and despite this being a spoiler, nobody has ever died doing it.

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Shawinigan Moments is written and recorded on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō (Stolo), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) first nations in what is otherwise called Vancouver.

Choo choo! I am a train! All aboard!

In this episode, Heather takes Tam on a small journey introducing the concept of the steam locomotive and railroads and how they were invented, built, and then eventually showed up in Canada including a big project to convince the a province to be made part of a newly-formed Dominion.

We missed you all! It is safe to say that this is season 2.

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Shawinigan Moments is written and recorded on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō (Stolo), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) first nations in what is otherwise called Vancouver.