Dominion : The Railway And The Rise Of Canada

A narrative history of the development of the Canadian Pacific Railway and its role in the political and economic formation of Canada. Beginning in the 1870s, the work traces the origins of the transcontinental railway project, its association with Confederation and the admission of British Columbia, and the political debates, financial arrangements, and scandals surrounding its construction. It also examines the labour involved in building the line, relations with Indigenous peoples, and the railway’s connection to western expansion, settlement, and the events of the North-West Resistance, concluding with the completion of the line in 1885.

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