What is the CPR and the Chinese Experience?
When did the CPR start and finish the construction?
Sir Donald A Smith
How much did the Chinese labour workers get paid?
$1 - $2.50
Who was the CPR significant to?
The Chinese labour workers, the people who use it, and the government
What evolved after the CPR?
New towns, jobs, industries, train stations, hotels, hospitality, telegraph lines, airlines, steamships, ports,
How many Chinese labour workers were involved?
15 000-17 000
Geographic location of the CPR
Pacific port of Vancouver, BC to
How did it help the Canadians live life?
made trading, military, and transportation easier
Significance to Canada
help protect Canada by moving the army weapons, brought British Columbia into confederation, restocked shops faster, and the CPR made money (good economy)
After the cancellation of the Reciprocity Treaty
New trading markets in the BNA
How long is the railway?
4800 km (3000 miled)
A negative exclusion of the Asian community
The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 and the Electoral Franchise Act of 1885
Trade line to which continents?
Europe and Asia
Change of land, change of scenery for new people
immigration and settlement from Eastern Canada and Europe
Population growth in which area?
North-West Territories (present day: prairie provinces
A contractor who recruited the Chinese labour workers
Andrew Onderdonk
What is the Last Spike?
A ceremony, celebrating the last spike hammered into the CPR on November 7 1885
Agriculture boom from where?
Northwest Territories (Prairie provinces)
Afraid of what country?
prevent the US from annexing the western territories and provinces
What was hard to find in Ontario, but was easy to access in the Northwest Territories after the railway?
Farm land
Why was the CPR built?
A promise to British Columbia and for the physical national unity of Canada
How was the CPR built?
1. Surveyors located lines, curves, and slopes
2. Lines were cleaned up
3. Wooden ties were placed on gradients, and spikes were hammered into the ties
4. The line was secured with crushed gravel so the wooden ties don't shift
What percentage of the 15 000-17 000 Chinese workers passed away?
25%
Erasure from history
The Chinese labour workers
wagons, ox carts, canoes, boats, sail boats, river streamers