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This sign in Nanaimo tells the history of the E&N.  The sign leaves out a significant part of the story.  Nineteen years after completing the line, Robert Dunsmuir convinced the Canadian Pacific to take over the financially ailing line and gave them the 2 million acres as incentive to do so. 
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