When the CPR reached Swift Current, the mail for Edmonton was taken off the train and sent to Edmonton via Battleford.
When the CPR reached Medicine Hat, the Calgary and Fort Macleod mail was taken off the train and was transported to Ft Macleod including the Calgary mail then it went on up to Calgary. The Edmonton mail was still being taken off at Swift Current.
When the CPR reached Calgary, the Edmonton mail was still being take off at Swift Current and the Calgary and Fort Macleod mail was still being taken off at Medicine Hat even though the CPR was now well past Calgary. It took city officials to write to the Postmaster General in Ottawa to get them to stop taking the Edmonton mail off at Swift Current and the Calgary mail off at Medicine Hat.
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