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Sir John A. MacDonald and the Railway

JV

Job Varghese

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Sir John A. MacDonald and the Railway

Summary

  • Sir John A. Macdonald had to give the railway company 25 million dollars, 10 million hectacres of land, and the removal of taxes from railway materials.
  • The completed railway increased trade and the mobility of troops which largely helped in WW1

Completing the Railway

Building the railway

  • On November 7, 1885 Donald Smith drove in the last spike which completed the railway
  • Sir John A.MacDonald's dream of connecting the country through railway was accomplished.
  • The first passenger train to travel across Canada arrived in Port Moody, British Columbia on July, 1886
  • There wasn't much progress made on the railway until Sir John A. MacDonald returned to power
  • A new CPR was made by a group of financiers from Montreal, the CPR began in Bonfield, Ontario and went westward
  • 1 600 miles needed to be covered to complete the railway
  • In the praries the work went easily but in the Rockies it went slowly
  • The CPR didn't have enough workers so the brought workers over from China to do the dangerous work.
  • The workers from china had to live in poor conditions and many of them died

Sir John A. MacDonald

  • Was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 11, 1815
  • MacDonald became Prime Minister in 1867, he was forced to resign in 1873 on his second term due to the Pacific scandal but he later returned to office in 1878 and stayed there until his death in 1891.
  • He promised British Columbia that he would build a railway within 10 years if the joined the dominion of Canada.

Early stages

  • Sir John A. MacDonald started looking for private investors willing to build the railway
  • Surveyors were needed to find the best routes,engineers were needed to build bridges and blast tunnels through the Rockies
  • Thousands of workers were needed to lay the tracks
  • The answer to these needs was the The Canadian Pacific Railway, formed by a group of businessmen which were under Sir Hugh Allan
  • Sanford Fleming was hired as the chief engineer
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