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John A. Macdonald. In 1873, John A. Macdonald and other high-ranking politicians, bribed in the Pacific Scandal, granted federal contracts to Hugh Allan's Canada Pacific Railway Company (unrelated to the current company) rather than to David Lewis Macpherson's Inter-Ocean Railway Company which was thought to have connections to the American Northern Pacific Railway Company.
For a young and loosely-defined nation, the building of a national railway was an active attempt at state-making, [4] as well as an aggressive capitalist venture. Canada, a nascent country with a population of 3.5 million in 1871, [5] lacked the means to exercise meaningful de facto control within the de jure political boundaries of the recently acquired Rupert's Land, and building a ...
At the time, the railway's completion fulfilled an 1871 commitment made by the Canadian federal government to British Columbia that a railway be built joining the Pacific province to Central Canada. The promise of a transcontinental railway had been a major factor in British Columbia's decision to join the Canadian Confederation. [2]
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (TSX: CP NYSE: CP) is a Canadian railway transportation company that operates the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was created in 2001 when the CPR's former parent company, Canadian Pacific Limited , spun off its railway operations.
The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's University Press 1989; Fleming, R. B. The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923 University of British Columbia Press, 1991; Fournier, Leslie T. Railway Nationalization in Canada: The Problem of the Canadian National Railways (1937)
Map showing the territory of the National Transcontinental Railway, in Quebec and Ontario (very pale blue along the top of the map). The completion of construction of Canada's first transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) on November 7, 1885, preceded a tremendous economic expansion and immigration boom in western Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but ...
The beauty of train trips used to be a key selling point. But with the Pacific Surfliner suffering the effects of climate change, safety and reliability may trump the pretty view.
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). British-backed Canadian firm, headed by US railroad building genius (Sir William Cornelius Van Horne ) gets the deal: $25 million, 25 million acres (100,000 km 2 ), already completed sections free, all under-construction sections finished free, 20 year monopoly as only railway and 20-year control over rate-setting.