The Opposition revealed that a business group had been granted the Canadian Pacific Railway contract in exchange for political donations of $360,000 (about $9 million in today’s dollars)
They have shaped Canada geographically, politically, economically and socially by stitching B.C. and the prairies to the eastern provinces via one long steel and creosote-soaked wooden seam and a generous corridor of land grants along the route.One is of the resolution of a scandal that rocked Canada’s Parliament 150 years ago. The Pacific Scandal prompted the resignation of then-prime minister Sir John A.
Such a railway would bring B.C. into Confederation and tie the west to Ottawa. It would also facilitate movement of goods, information and settlers across the country, strongly signalling jurisdiction against rapid, land- and resource-hungry American expansion. In November 1973, seven months after the Opposition first revealed that one of the business groups had been granted the Canadian Pacific Railway contract in exchange for political donations of $360,000 , Parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the Macdonald government.
They also adopted the land grants system to subsidize construction. The Canadian Pacific Railway received lands across western Canada equal in size to the area of England. The company also received lands for rights-of-way, stations and yard works.The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway was part of the same B.C.-Canada Confederation deal. Robert Dunsmuir, coal baron and politician, received from the B.C.
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