Another Canadian railway, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR), encountered financial difficulty on March 7, 1919, when its parent company Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) defaulted on repayment of construction loans to the federal government.
Nel 1920 entrò la Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), nel 1923 si unì anche la Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR), società gemella della precedente, che dal 1919 si dibatteva in difficoltà finanziarie.