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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Canadian Pacific Railway"”.
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The significance of Highlanders in the development of the Canadian West
… rock in Bella Coola in 1793, in what is now<br/>Pacific Coast British Columbia (BC), it signalled the beginning of a new<br/>transcontinental era in the Canadian fur trade. Ninety-three years later, Donald<br/>Alexander Smith, a descendant of Clan Grant, drove the final spike into the Canadian …
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The Public Good and Private Business of the Crow Rate: Prairie Grain Handling and Transportation Policy
The Crow rate shaped the Canadian prairies’ agricultural settlement yet a highly charged debate over it fostered a sense of western alienation. Originally signed in 1897 the Crowsnest Pass Agreement, more popularly known as the Crow rate, between the federal government and the Canadian Pacific …
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Wilderness Nation: Building Canada's Railway Landscapes, 1885-1929
Central to Canadian identity is a national consciousness of inhabiting a country of vast landscapes, which are often identified as "wilderness." This thesis explores the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's use of architecture, landscape, and spatial techniques to construct Canadian concepts of …
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The Vancouver Island brewing industry: 1858 - 1917
… that, especially before the coming of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886, was small and relatively isolated. Nevertheless, the Island industry paralleled in many ways its North-American counterpart, particularly in technological change, business practice and the ethnicity of the …
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Performing the Canadian "Mosaic": Juliette Gauthier, Florence Glenn, and the CPR Festivals of Quebec City
… close collaboration between prominent figures in Canadian musical and cultural history, John Murray Gibbon and Marius Barbeau. Based on Anglocentric concerns for a unique Canadian identity and corresponding school of composition, the festivals served as points of contact between many artists and …