Name of The Line
During the stages of planning and public consultation, the line was known as the "Richmond-Airport-Vancouver Line", or RAV for short. The name "Canada Line" was officially adopted in 2005 to coincide with the beginning of construction. Some early documents also refer to it as the "Olympic Line", in honour of the 2010 Winter Olympics, continuing the practice by which the Expo and Millennium lines were named after significant events occurring at the time of construction. This name was subsequently adopted for the demonstrator modern-streetcar service which operated along the Downtown Historic Railway for a two-month period centred on the Olympics.
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