HIS263Y1 Lecture : 1911 Election

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19 Apr 2011
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The 1911 election: a railway journey, reciprocity, 1911. 1910, laurier took a train across the country whistle stop tour, 1910 railways important to east-west economy/nation/links. In laurier period, railways is more than economics, it"s an agent of transformation, an iron civilizer, brings progress and development to an area. The first technology that transcends nature railway + telegraph = allows you to bypass nature, info becomes virtual. A region transformed since nw rebellion and riel. _by economic change, wheat, farms, spinoffs of farms, timbre from bc. Whistle stop tour sometimes would go into town, but would mostly stop at train station and would give a speech at the back of the train to whoever would come. Heard 2 things: dramatics greetings and, a list of grievance. Topping the list of grievances was the tariff (national policy tariff) tax on goods coming into the country making them more expensive to come in.

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