Building the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. C.P. Wright Outfit working on the grade across North Norfolk c 1890 properly populated or developed unless competition to the CPR was organized. After years of political wrangling, a bill was passed in Ottawa on September 2, 1903 providing for the creation of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR). This line would run from Winnipeg to the west coast and be built with private money. The GTPR would then connect up to the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) a long-established eastern Canada carrier, thereby forming Canada’s second transcontinental system. Completed in late 1913, this second line was operational just months before Canada’s third transcontinental, the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR), was completed. As with the CPR, the GTPR also fostered new communities in the Municipality (which along this stretch of the right-of-way were named alphabetically). Running north of the CPR mainline, stops along the GTPR in North Norfolk were Caye, Deer, Exira and Firdale. C. P. Wright Outfit building the Grand Trunk Pacific across North Norfolk c 1890