History 2201E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: William Van Horn, United States Territorial Acquisitions
26 Jun 2012
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Westward expansion and the cpr: huge amounts of advertising, both inside and outside canada, land was extremely cheap. 160 acres for a patent fee and promise to improve the land within 3 years (working it, etc. : canadian pacific railway. Had to start to get people out west. Liberals completely against it too expensive. Rash and disastrous step for a handful of people . Building and surveying was a huge and difficult task. The land that they just treated for with the natives was sold off to private companies to build the railroad. Cash subsidy offered to get people to build the cpr. Toronto group and montreal group stepped up early in. Tg led by senator d. l. macpherson and mg led by sir. Sir hugh allen had american connections and used. American money to get the contract; illegal and is what brought the mcdonald government down. William van horn the manager of the construction.
