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rail freight transport

Canadian Pacific Railway

Compagnie de Chemin de Fer Canadien Pacifique

Headquarters: Calgary
Founded: 1881
Employees: 15,416

Official website

Photo: Photograph by David R. Spencer. Please retain this attribution. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Canadian Pacific Railway is

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The Canadian Pacific Railway (French: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) (reporting marks CP, CPAA, MILW, SOO), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, known until 2023 as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001.

The railway is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. In 2023, the railway owned approximately 20,100 kilometres (12,500 mi) of track in seven provinces of Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also served Minneapolis–St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and Albany, New York, in the United States.

The railway was first built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1875 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a commitment extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871; the CPR was Canada's first transcontinental railway. Primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades the only practical means of long-distance passenger transport in most regions of Canada and was instrumental in the colonization and development of Western Canada.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Compagnie de Chemin de Fer Canadien Pacifique
Industry: rail freight transport
Legal form: business corporation
Country of registration: Canada
Headquarters: Calgary
Formed in: —
Founded: 1881
Dissolved: —
Employees: 15,416
Listed on: —
Ticker: —
ISIN: CA13645T1003
Legal Entity Identifier: 54930036474DURYNB481
Head office coordinates: 51.0475, -114.0625

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 77.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1949
Newest vessel on record: 1949
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
Average tonnage: —
Market share: —
Parent company: Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Parent company

Canadian Pacific Kansas City

Subsidiaries and units (5)

Canadian Pacific Air LinesCanadian Pacific HotelsCanadian Pacific Railway Lake and River ServiceSt. Lawrence and Hudson RailwayCentral Maine & Quebec Railway

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Canadian Pacific Railway. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified1

By flag state

Canada1

By shipbuilder

John Brown & Company1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
SS Princess Marguerite	5284900	Unclassified	Canada	1949	—	—	113.9 m	John Brown & Company

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Canadian Pacific Railway compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Canadian Pacific Railway is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Canada is the country of registration for 23 commercial operators in this directory, among which Canadian Pacific Railway ranks 9th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 92 vessels here. See every operator registered in Canada.

Founded in 1881, Canadian Pacific Railway is 145 years old. This directory holds 41 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q46974, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Canadian Pacific Railway on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.