Vanderhoof station is on the

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

mainline in

Vanderhoof, British Columbia Vanderhoof is a district municipality near the geographical centre of British Columbia, Canada. Covering 2.92 square kilometers., it has a population of about 4,500 within town limits, and offers services to nearly 10,000 people in nearby rural c ...

. The station is served by Via Rail's

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History

The station was open in 1912-13 by the

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port. East of Winnipeg the line continued as the National Tra ...

. The town site was named after

Herbert Vanderhoof Herbert Vanderhoof was editor of '' Canada West magazine'', and an early promoter of development in Canada's north. He was a founding board member of the Northern Transportation Company. In that capacity he and company President J.K. Cornwall in ...

, a publicity agent from Chicago that was retained by the railway to attract settlers to the region.

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