Mixed trains on the CNR?

[RobertInOntario]

Rob:
I picked up a CN timetable for 1960 on our holidays (going cheap in Florida).
If I read it correctly -- train number starting with M are mixed --
-all over Nfld
-Halifax-Yarmouth
-PEI
-Gaspe was Mixed and Railliner.
-a few in Quebec
-one of the trains from Palmerston to Kincardine (3 days a week)
-the Northern Ontario route had some every week but not covering the entire route.
-Atikokan to Rainy River; Port Arthur to Sioux Lookout
-Winnipeg to Victoria Beach
-Swan River to Hudson Bay, Sask
-Melville to Sturgis; Waboden to Gillam and a few other strips in northern Man and Sask
-lots out of Prince Albert (Dief was still the Chief that year!)
-a few in Alberta
-Blue River to Kamloops Jct in BC (3 a week) and McBride to Prince George

I think that the train to Flin Flon and The Pas was mixed into the VIA era -- they had some specially designated cars for this.

Wow, thanks for this info, David. It's interesting to find all of this out. I hadn't thought much about it until I noticed so many in the above-mentioned CPR book. I knew there had been many mixed trains in Britain in the past but didn't realize it happened over here as well.