Until the decision was (1)___ to close it in the early 1990s,the Canadian Pacific was for many years the world's greatest rail (2)_____.Built over a hundred years ago at tremendous (3)____ cost, it stretched 2,887 miles from Montreal to the Pacific (4)____,crossing dense pine forests and massive mountains.The line was cut through (5)____ rjck by 30,000 men working in huge areas of (6)____ country,often in terrible weather conditions. In many ways, Canada is a nation that was (7)_____ by railways.Western cities like Calgary would not exist if the trains had not passed (8)____ there, and that long thin line was what once (9)______ such hugely different places as Newfoundland on the Atlantic with Vancouver on the Pacific. Another victim of air (10)____ that is both cheaper and easier. Eastern Canadians, (11)_____ their American neighbours, do not feel drawn towards the west.When it is (12)____ zero in Toronto or Quebec they fly south to the Carribbean rather than freeze in Winnipeg.