Correspondence relative to the Canadian Pacific Railway

Correspondence relative to the Canadian Pacific Railway

British Columbia
Transportation
Canadian Pacific Railway

Due to British Columbia agreeing to build transport links as per the agreement to join the Canadian confederation, this book of papers contain the context surrounding the “pacific scandal”. A scandal which saw a bribery of the first government of Canada where various ministers were bribed by private parties for their votes in the bid for the contracts to the construction of the transport links. Canadian governance was still under British influence as seen due to the Canadian authority taking great measures to ensure the contracts would not be allowed to be given to any private American investors, with whom the British had a frosty relationship. This relates to our theme of transportation and how its importance extended into such deep points of Canadian society thus the magnitude of its importance in shaping Canadian government at the time.

Great Britain. Colonial Office

The university of British Columbia

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungpub/items/1.0355281#p4z-4r0f:newspaper

1874

Muhammad Ali

The university of British Columbia. Rare Books and Special Collections
DOI: 10.14288/1.0355281
London : William Clowes & Son

English

Textual - printed book

19th century British Columbia