A July 22, 1993 Privy Council Order-in-Council gave the Crown corporation CN the title to all of the the Canadian Government Railways for $1 dollar. Subsidiaries of the Canadian Government Railways were:
1.) Intercolonial Railway of Canada.
2.) Hudson's Bay Railway.
3.) National Transcontinental Railway.
4.) Prince Edward Island Railway.
"The People's Railway" was denationalized two years after an Order-in-Council was signed by the Governor General of Canada:
PRIVY COUNCIL ORDER-IN-COUNCIL
PC NUMBER 1993-1603.
Date: 1993-07-22
Precis " Authority to enter into an agreement with CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS COMPANY and to dispose of all rights, title and interest in the Canadian Government Railways lands to the Canadian National Railway Company and termination of the management and lands entrusted to CN."
PRIVY COUNCIL ORDER-IN-COUNCIL
PC NUMBER 1993-1603.
Date: 1993-07-22
Precis " Authority to enter into an agreement with CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS COMPANY and to dispose of all rights, title and interest in the Canadian Government Railways lands to the Canadian National Railway Company and termination of the management and lands entrusted to CN."
The Intercolonial Railway Line was abandoned in 1989:
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