1. He develop it because needed a political platform to convince all Canadiadians that a transcontinental railway was important to survival. Also he thought it was a formula for successful nation building, which it remained a central part of Canadian government policy.
2. Tariffs: a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports and exports
CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway): to transport goods through a railway.
3. The CPR Syndicate (George Stephen [Bank President], Donald Smith [Hudson Bay Company, James J. Hill. Coal Trading)
4.They need to complet the railway in 10 years.
5.They change the way of the Railway because of land speculators.
6. The other people were taking too long so he is supposed to speed it up
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9. They ran out of money. They asked Canada 22 million dollars for the railway.
10. Kicking Horse pass
11. The USA had a railway that goes through USA. Canadians used the railway to get to the coast faster than the interior.
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