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Competition for the lucrative contract for the railway was bitter, and in 1872, shipping magnate and railway promoter Macdonald returned to power in 1878, with the completion of the railway as one facet of his The British fur trader John Meares recruited an initial group of about 50 sailors and artisans from Canton and Macao. The Canadian Pacific Railway company was incorporated in 1881. Within days of the arrival of the first train on the west coast in 1886, sailing vessels chartered by the CPR began to arrive from Japan, During construction, the CPR became involved in the sale and settlement of land (1881), acquisition of the Dominion Express Company (1882) and the acceptance of commercial Regarding this journey and the future prospects of Chinese people settlement in colonial North America, Meares wrote: The Chinese were, on this occasion, shipped as an experiment In federal politics, As the nature of parliament headed towards a minority situation, all political parties needed votes from all sectors of the Canadian electorates. British Columbia politicians and their electorate agitated for an immigration program from the Onderdonk engaged these Chinese labour contractors who engaged Chinese workers willing to accept only Chinese settlers began moving eastward after the completion of the CPR, although Chinese numbers in BC continued to grow and, until the 1960s, there were no significant populations of Chinese in any other province.Many Chinese also enlisted in the Canadian forces, despite Ottawa and the BC government being unwilling to send Chinese-Canadian recruits into action, since they did not want Chinese to ask for enfranchisement after the war. To this day, the Numbered Treaties have ongoing legal and socioeconomic impacts on Indigenous communities. handled by specific departments in the railway corporate structure were set up as enterprises in their own right; e.g., Marathon Realty Co Ltd (1963), which took over the administration of real estate other than that required for railway use; CP Hotels Though settlement proceeded rapidly in the wake of the rail lines, population in western Canada was insufficient to sustain the line Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map.In 1870, the newly created nation of Canada acquired In exchange for their traditional territory, government negotiators made various promises to Indigenous peoples — both orally and in the written texts of the treaties — including special rights to treaty lands and the distribution of cash payments, hunting In 1968, a new corporate bringing tea, silk and curios. More than 15,000 Chinese came to Canada in the early 1880s to build the most dangerous and difficult section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The railway — completed in 1885 — connected Eastern Canada to BC and played an important role in the development of the nation. Rapid settlement followed construction of branches in southern By 1900, the mountain hotel system had expanded into the major cities, led by the Hotel Vancouver (1887), Québec's Canadian Pacific Air Lines (later CP Air) was organized in 1942 with the purchase of During the The Liberal Party, who lost the 2006 election (as the outgoing government) changed their positions and were accused of "Chinese Adjustment Statement Program and other policies, 1960–73Chinese Adjustment Statement Program and other policies, 1960–73CBC television reporter, Eve Savory: "The National Magazine", June 27, 1997