100 Years at the Heart of Transportation Dealing with Persons with Disabilities
A Centennial Historical Perspective of the Canadian Transportation Agency and its Predecessors Available in multiple formats © Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2004 Printed and bound in Canada ISBN 0-662-34905-9 Catalogue No. TT4-2/2003E-PDF This document and other Canadian Transportation Agency publications are available in multiple formats and on its Web site at: www.cta.gc.ca. For more information about the Agency please call (819) 997-0344 or toll free 1 888 222-2592. Correspondence may be addressed to: Chief of Publishing Canadian Transportation Agency Ottawa, ON K1A 0N9 Cover photos: First passenger train to Edmonton from Winnipeg – Canadian Northern Railway Company, 1905, Photographer: G.D. Clark, CSTM/CN002380 • Ferry MV Federal Avalon, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1975, Photographer: M. Segal, CSTM/CN001689 • Porter assists passengers with their luggage, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1951, CSTM/CN002828 • A TCA Canadair DC-4M North Star flying over Kinley Airport, Bermuda, 1950, CSTM/CN000261 • Other 6 images are stock photography held by the Canadian Transportation Agency, ©Digital Vision. Acknowledgments Acentury ago, on February 1, 1904, Committee, chaired by Claude Jacques, the Board of Railway Commissioners Arun Thangaraj and Judie Carrigan. began work as Canada’s first independ- Other members of the Committee are: ent regulatory body with jurisdiction over Vice-Chairman Gilles Dufault, former transportation matters. The structure and Member Keith Penner, Craig Lee, Alison scope of that first Board evolved over the Hale, Nancy Hay, Katie Fillmore, Paul years to its present form as the Canadian Juneau, John Corey, Louise McCreadie, Transportation Agency, with jurisdiction Michelle Raby and Julie Leroux.
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