HIST 325 Lecture Notes - Stout, Clifford Sifton, Protestantism
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What was the national plan for a canadian west? (1870s-1890s: formally: group of tariffs to promote and protect canadian manufacturing (eastern provinces, broader goal: to create east-west trade relations, a national market, and a transcontinental political-economic union. What was the role and importance of rupert"s land in national development: was the breadbasket of canada, no technology to extract oil (more expensive to extract oil than its sale price) How important was cpr as a partner in development: very important, received 20 miles of land either way of the railway which they could sell. With all the developments touched upon here, every aspect of national policy, broadly speaking, depended upon successful recruitment of a major pool of immigrants. No: the western prairies are the seat and cradle of the future population of this dominion. They are the seat of power and control, and, as that population is, so will this dominion be.
