HIST261 Lecture Notes - Israelites, Gatling Gun, Glossary Of Patience Terms
25 Feb 2014
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The canadian pacific railway and its attendant problems. They were to build a transcontinental railway from the georgian bay to the pacific entirely within. In exchange they would get 25 and 25 million acres of land along either side of the railway. They would be tax exempt, and have duty-free status for the import of construction materials. They also got a monopoly clause, for 10 years after the transcontinental railway was built, no other railways would be built in the nwt. The initial route was to go through selkirk to prince albert and then to edmonton (the. Yellowhead route), but this was changed to winnipeg to regina to calgary (the kicking horse. Route) due to the huge seams of coal that was found in southern alberta. 1896), they ere allowed to charge more in the nwt to make up for the competition they faced in. Participants: aboriginal peoples, m tis (french catholic, from now on always assume this) and.
