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intercolonial railway Hist. 
a railway linking the Maritimes with Quebec and Ontario, the beginnings of the transcontinental railway.
- 1887 (1888) . . . many of our passengers [left] at Rimouski, where the mail tender meets the steamer, and the inter-colonial railway is available. . . .
- 1953 For twenty years previous to Confederation, the people of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, led by Howe, had been attempting to build an intercolonial railway connecting them one with the other and with Canada.
- 1887 (1888) . . . many of our passengers [left] at Rimouski, where the mail tender meets the steamer, and the inter-colonial railway is available. . . .