This is how much money a railway worker made per day.
What is $1.50?
100
This is the current name of the area that Major A.B. Rogers found that allowed trains to pass through the mountains.
What is Rogers Pass?
100
This is the date that the "Last Spike" was driven in.
What is November 7, 1885?
100
This how the the Canadian Pacific Railway attracted people to move out west.
What is sell farm land for very affordable prices?
200
These were the first 4 provinces of Canada.
What are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario?
200
This is approximately how many men helped build the railway in British Columbia.
What is 15,000 men?
200
This is how long it took Major A.B. Rogers to find a pass through the mountains that a railway could be built through.
What is 2 years?
200
This man hammered in the "last spike".
Who is Donald A. Smith?
200
This is how the CPR let everyone know that the land could easily be farmed.
What is they set up 10 experimental Prairie farms, and displayed their harvested crops on an exhibit train car?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This is the year that British Columbia joined Canada.
This is what the Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald promised British Columbia if they joined Canada.
What is 1871?
What is a railway connecting BC with the other provinces?
300
This section of the railway honours the many Chinese labourers who died while building the railway.
What is the Cheng Interchange?
300
This the name of the mountain range that Major A.B. Rogers' pass went through.
What are the Selkirk Mountains?
300
This is the city where the "last spike" was driven in.
What is Craigellachie, British Columbia?
300
This is how much the CPR sold their ready-made small farms for.
What is 10 equal payments of $1,300 ($13,000)?
400
This province is also known as "Lower Canada".
What is Quebec?
400
This is how much money and how much land the Canadian government gave The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to complete the railway.
What are $25 million, and 25 million acres?
400
These were needed to help trains go up the really steep portions of Rogers Pass.
What are pusher locomotives?
400
Due to the Canadian Pacific Railway going through the Blackfoot reserve, this chief was given a lifetime pass to travel on the CPR.
Who is Crowfoot?
400
This is how much the CPR sold their ready-made large farms for.
What is 10 equal payments of $2,500 ($25,000)?
500
This is where Sir John A. Macdonald was born.
What is Glasgow, Scotland?
500
These are 2 of William Van Horne's 4 favourite hobbies.
What are geology, gardening, sketching, and art collecting?
500
This project, built in the 1980's, consisting of a viaduct, and 2 tunnels, making it the longest tunnel in the western hemisphere, is considered to be one of the greatest engineering feats in Canadian history.
What is the Mount Macdonald Tunnel?
500
This is where the Canadian Pacific Railway ended in British Columbia.
What is Port Moody?
500
This is how many farms (consisting of a house, barn, well and pump) the CPR developed to be sold along the railway between 1909 & 1919.