The Canadian Pacific Railway And The Development Of Western Canada 1896 1914

Author : John Andrew Eagle
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773506748

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The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914 by John Andrew Eagle Pdf

A large federal cash subsidy aided CPR construction of the Crows Nest Pass Railway from Lethbridge, Alberta, to Nelson, British Columbia. The line, completed in late 1898, was designed to en-courage mining and smelting in the Kootenays and to link this region with Central Canada. From 1989 to 1914 the Great Northern Railroad in the United States also built lines into southern British Columbia to tap this valuable mining traffic. The CPR completed a line to Vancouver in 1915, by which time it dominated the regional traffic. However, it still faced competition for this traffic from the Great Northern which had allied itself with the Canadian Northern Railway. John Eagle examines the lengthy and bitter conflict which resulted between the two railways. Eagle provides the first scholarly analysis of the Crows Nest Pass Agreement of 1897. Under this historic agreement, the CPR stimulated prairie agriculture by lowering its freight rates on grain, matching both the lower rates of the Canadian Northern on grain and the rates on wheat established under the Manitoba Agreement of 1901. The development of southern British Columbia also opened a new market for prairie grain and cattle. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada challenges the prevailing view that CPR land policies were designed primarily to promote settlement in order to generate traffic for the railway. Eagle argues that the railway adopted policies which maximized profits from its agricultural lands so that proceeds from prairie land sales became an important source of revenue for the company.

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UCAL:B4273485

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A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway by Harold Adams Innis Pdf

Author : James B. Hedges
Publisher : Hedges Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781406756395

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Building the Canadian West - The Land and Colonization Policies of the Canadian Pacific Railway by James B. Hedges Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : James Blaine Hedges
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Canadian Pacific Railway
ISBN : UOM:39015059497373

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Building the Canadian West by James Blaine Hedges Pdf

Author : Martin Brook Taylor,Doug Owram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802076769

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Canadian History: Confederation to the present by Martin Brook Taylor,Doug Owram Pdf

"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

Author : Irene M. Spry,Bennett McCardle,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : 0889770611

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The Records of the Department of the Interior and Research Concerning Canada's Western Frontier of Settlement by Irene M. Spry,Bennett McCardle,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center Pdf

The Dept. of the Interior was in existence from 1873 to 1936.

Author : Frank Leonard
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780774842594

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A Thousand Blunders by Frank Leonard Pdf

In A Thousand Blunders, Frank Leonard looks at why the 'Road of a Thousand Wonders' failed to live up to the expectations forecast by company president Charles M. Hays and other senior managers. Not only was the railway built through a sparsely settled region, which generated little immediate traffic, but its economic difficulties were also compounded by the numerous mistakes made by managers at all levels: for example, their failure to respond adequately to labour shortages caused serious delays and prevented the company from proving Prince Rupert as an effective alternative harbour before World War I broke out. For this book, Frank Leonard had access to a wealth of original documents, among them the GTP legal department files, providing him with insights into the decisions that formed the basis for policies in townsites and on Indian reserves. A Thousand Blunders is a provocative account of one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history. Richly detailed and thoroughly documented, it makes an important contribution to the fields of railway and business history, as well as to the study of the history of northern British Columbia.

Author : HAROLD ADAMS. INNIS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103326623X

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HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY by HAROLD ADAMS. INNIS Pdf

Author : J. Lorne McDougall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773593343

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Canadian Pacific by J. Lorne McDougall Pdf

Author : Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136138201

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International Bibliography of Business History by Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday Pdf

The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.

Author : R. Douglas Francis,Howard Palmer
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 088864227X

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The Prairie West: Historical Readings by R. Douglas Francis,Howard Palmer Pdf

This collection of 35 readings on Canadian prairie history includes overview interpretation and current research on topics such as the fur trade, native peoples, ethnic groups, status of women, urban and rural society, the Great Depression and literature and art.

Author : Canada. Department of Transport
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : UCAL:B4506434

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A Statutory History of the Steam and Electric Railways of Canada, 1836-1937 by Canada. Department of Transport Pdf

Author : Beth LaDow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135296087

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The Medicine Line by Beth LaDow Pdf

Along the border between Montana and Saskatchewan lies one hundred miles of hard and desolate terrain, a remote place where Native and new American nations came together in a contest for land, wealth, and survival. Following explorers Lewis and Clark and Alexander Mackenzie, both Americans and Canadians launched the process of empire along the 49th parallel, disrupting the lives of Native peoples who began to traverse this imaginary line in search of refuge. In this evocative and beautifully rendered portrait, Beth LaDow recreates the unstable world along this harsh frontier, capturing the complex history of a borderland known as "the medicine line" to the Indians who lived there. When Sitting Bull crossed the boundary for the last time in 1881, weary of pursuit by the U.S. cavalry and the constant threat of starvation, the region opened up to railroad men and settlers, determined to make a living. But the unforgiving landscape would resist repeated attempts to subdue it, from the schemes of powerful railroad magnate James J. Hill, to the exploits of Canadian Mountie James Walsh, to the misguided dreams of ranchers and homesteaders, whose difficult existence is best captured in Wallace Stegner's plaintive accounts of a boyhood spent in this stark place. Drawing on little-known diaries, letters, and memories, as well as interviews with the descendants of settlers and native peoples, The Medicine Line reveals how national interests were transformed by the powerful alchemy of mingling peoples and the place they shared. With a historian's insight and a storyteller's gift, LaDow questions some of our deepest assumptions about a nationalist frontier past and finds in this least-known place a new historical and emotional heart-land of the North American West. A colorful history of the most desolate terrain in America, one hundred miles between Canada & Montana, where three nations fought over land, wealth, & ultimately survival

Author : Don Nerbas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442662810

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Dominion of Capital by Don Nerbas Pdf

In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government. As public pressures changed the priorities of Canada’s political parties, many of Canada’s most powerful businessmen struggled to come to terms with a changing world that was less sympathetic to their ideas and interests than before. Dominion of Capital offers a new account of relations between government and business in Canada during a period of transition between the established expectations of the National Policy and the uncertain future of the twentieth century. Don Nerbas tells this fascinating story through close portraits of influential business and political figures of this period – including Howard P. Robinson, Charles Dunning, Sir Edward Beatty, R.S. McLaughlin, and C.D. Howe – that provide insight into how events in different sectors of the economy and regions of the country shaped the political outlook and strategies of the country’s business elite. Drawing on business, political, social, and cultural history, Nerbas revises standard accounts of government-business relations in this period and sheds new light on the challenges facing big business in early twentieth-century Canada.

Author : Morris Zaslow
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771005503

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The Opening of the Canadian North 1870-1914 by Morris Zaslow Pdf

Volume XVI of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. This pioneer study traces Canada’s northward expansion in the years after Confederation. In the forefront of the movement were fur-traders, missionaries, and gold-seekers. Behind them came provincial and federal governments, concerned for their authority, and anxious to develop the riches of the North. Under the Laurier government (1896--1911) the advance quickened, and the roles of the Geological Survey, North-West Mounted Police, and Departments of the Interior, Indian Affairs, and Marine and Fisheries, gained new importance. Professor Zaslow, in examining the opening of social, cultural, economic, and industrial frontiers, chronicles the outstanding achievements, as well as the far-reaching failures of the period. A country which, by Confederation in 1867, had barely extended beyond the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence Lowlands region, had by 1914 occupied the prairies. Aided by new transcontinental railways, its people had begun moving into the forests of the Middle North along a front that extended from Lake St. John to Dawson, and the Arctic frontier beyond received increasing attention. But the governments failed in their treatment of the Indigenous population, and in their eagerness to foster development they allowed the resources to be exploited blindly, for and by foreign interests in the main. These were exciting, complex years; in Professor Zaslow’s words, “years of apprenticeship, when Canada began to come to grips with the facts of its northern nature.” First published in 1971, Zaslow’s important contribution to the Canadian Centenary Series is available here as an e-book for the first time.