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Article: Commemorating the first railway in Western Canada.(Gazette)
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- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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The Dominion of Canada was still quite young when it spread its wings and reached for the Pacific. But purchasing the Hudson's Bay Company's territories and bringing Manitoba and British Columbia into Confederation were only the first steps to becoming a transcontinental nation. An effective communication and transportation route needed to be established between the eastern and western portions of the expanding country--indeed, such a route had been promised to British Columbia. While Sir John A. Macdonald proposed building the now-famous transcontinental railroad, Liberal leader Alexander Mackenzie preferred a combination of rail and water routes to connect east and ...
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