1928 United States presidential election in Washington (state) county in Washington – and indeed along with five counties in California the first Democratic wins since that election in any county within the three Pacific States of Washington, Oregon and California. The extent of anti-Catholic sentiment in the progressive Pacific Northwest can be seen in that Washington State was the fourth most Republican in the nation during this election, voting 18.33 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large and less Republican than only Maine, Michigan and Kansas. Only in 1904 has Washington State been so Republican relative to the nation as a whole, and then there was a
Georgian Bay and Seaboard Railway Georgian Bay and Seaboard Railway The Georgian Bay and Seaboard Railway (GB&S) was a former short-line railway in Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The first sections opened in 1908, and the entire route was fully completed in 1912. The GB&S was designed to compete with the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway (OA&PS). Both acted as trans-shipment points between lakers on the upper Great Lakes and Atlantic ports in the east, especially grain shipments from the Canadian prairies to docks in Montreal and the east coast. CPR had originally planned to run a line almost