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The reason for this was probably because CN was a government-owned corporation until it was sold off in 1995. CN adopted their "wet noodle" logo and paint schemes in 1960 and this is when they started using Canadien National. Prior to that, every piece of CN equipment was lettered Canadian National. It's interesting to see that they did this at the time because, while their has always been a large French-speaking population in Quebec, Canada didn't actually become officially bilingual until the Trudeau era (1968-1970's). <br /> <br />Of interest and sort of related to this topic is an incident that took place back in the 60's that I saw a thing about on TV a long time ago. Things were heating up in Quebec at this time (there have been some bad conflicts of French against English in our history). Some people jumped the president of CN while he was walking to CN headquarters in Montreal and stole the papers he was carrying. They found out that there weren't any French-Canadians on CN's board of directors and this sparked violent protests in Quebec. I don't remember what actually came of it, though. <br /> <br />Jim, Ah, yes, I remember that thread all too well! I should, considering that I'm the one who started it in the first place, never intending for it to spark the flame war that it did. For those who don't know, there was an item on the news here that CN didn't want to be known as Canadian National anymore, but simply CN (kind of like Burlington Northern Santa Fe who are now officially known as BNSF). This was sparking a lot of anger by people who felt that they were downplaying being Canadian. I thought this was and interesting news item and decided to mention it here. What I ended up with was a viscious USA vs. Canada battle. Anyway, it seems that CN is just CN. I don't think they are downplaying their Canadian heritage, though, as their website is a .ca address.
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