I am the three main elements of the National Policy
What are:
1.) Keep cheaper American goods out of Canada
2.) Encourage Canadians to buy goods made by other Canadians
3.) Fill the prairie lands with settlers
100
I am the name of the company that built the railway
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway Company?
100
I am the daily wage that most workers earned
What is $1.00?
100
I am the province whose mountains posed a severe threat to the construction of the railway tracks
What is British Columbia?
100
I am the year the Scandal occurred
What is 1873?
200
I am the country that the National Policy sought to decrease ties with?
What is the United States?
200
I am the name of the executive of the Hudson's Bay Company that led the CPR
Who is Donald Smith?
200
I am the diet that the workers were on
What is salt pork, corned beef, beans, tea, and coffee?
200
I am the body of water that Van Horne called "two hundred miles of engineering impossibility"
What is Lake Superior?
200
I am the reason Macdonald used to justify the money
What is the fact that all political parties received gifts of money from their "friends" for election campaigns?
300
I am the initiative that resulted from the National Policy
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
300
I am the amount of land that the CPR received as a result of the contract. I am also a possibility of what the CPR could do with the land.
What is 10 million hectares?
What is sell the land to settlers
300
I am the group of people that were given the most dangerous railway building tasks. I am also the main goal for these workers.
Who are the Chinese workers?
What is...to save enough money to buy a small plot of land in China
300
I am the name and function of the framework used to travel over deep river canyons
What is a trestle?
What is...it is used as a bridge to allow the railway to cross the mountains in order to transport supplies to the workers
300
I am the year of the election that Macdonald used the money to fund
What is 1872?
400
I am the political party that disapproved of the National Policy. I am also the leader of this party.
What is the Liberals?
Who is Alexander Mackenzie?
400
I am the number of years that the CPR was allowed to operate the railway in the West for
What is 20 years?
400
I am the name and amount of the tax that required a group of immigrants to pay during the construction of the railway.
What is the Chinese head tax?
What is $50 per person?
400
I am the main reason the First Nations people opposed the building of the railway
What is the route of the railway was planned through the reserves
400
I am the opposition's views on the Scandal and the building of the railway
What are:
1.) Too expensive
2.) Not enthusiastic-wanted to continue the free trade policy
3.) One of John A's "wild schemes"
500
I am the international event that prompted the establishment of the National Policy
What is the Depression
500
I am the EXACT date the contract was signed
What is October 21, 1880?
500
I am the amount of time it took for the workers to lay down 10.3 kilometres of track in a competition
What is 10 hours?
500
I am the method that workers used to transport nitroglycerine
What is carrying it in bottles attached to their backs?