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immigrant train Hist. 
a railway train carrying immigrants at low rates to their new places of settlement.
See also: emigrant train (def. 2) immigration train
- 1895 At the time of my arrival everything was bustle and excitement, as an immigrant train was expected with several settlers for the Bay.
- 1911 In the last issue we asked the C.P.R. why they didn't put on a coffee-and-sinker layout on their immigrant trains.
- 1953 Soon the spectacle of long immigrant trains shuttling across the country was a typical sight, and Winnipeg, the first distribution-point for these new Canadians, became a polyglot metropolis of diverse accents and nationalities.
- 1895 At the time of my arrival everything was bustle and excitement, as an immigrant train was expected with several settlers for the Bay.