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May 10
Tupper in House outlines Government’s railway policy, rejects Burrard route and announces 125 miles will be built at once in British Columbia.
June 21
Donald A. Smith’s election controverted for corruption.
Oct. 4
Burrard route re-adopted.
Nov. 20
Andrew Onderdonk arrives in Ottawa to negotiate for four British Columbia contracts.
1880
 
Mar. 1
Government relieves Joseph Whitehead of contract.
Mar. 3
Fleming attacked in Parliament.
Mar. 16
Nitro-glycerine works blows up at Prince Arthur’s Landing.
April 22
Onderdonk arrives at Yale, B.C., to commence construction.
April 28
Alexander Mackenzie resigns as Liberal leader. Edward Blake named new leader.
May 22
Fleming resigns and is replaced by Collingwood Schreiber.
June 15
Charles Tupper’s memo to Privy Council urges that capitalists be found to build
CPR
.
June 16
CPR
Royal Commission appointed.
June 29
Macdonald, at political picnic, Bath, Ontario, announces capitalists in Britain stand ready to build railway.
July 10
Macdonald, Tupper and Pope sail for England.
July 18
Michael Haney, thrown from a moving train, narrowly escapes death on Section Fifteen.
July 30
(approx.)
Whiskey dealer Dan Harrington shot at Hawk Lake.
Aug. 12
CPR
Royal Commission begins hearings.
Sept. 4
Macdonald signs a provisional agreement in London with Stephen–McIntyre–Hill Syndicate.
Sept. 11
Donald A. Smith defeated in Selkirk by-election.
Sept. 27
Macdonald arrives back in Montreal.
Oct. 21
Final contract signed with Stephen Syndicate.
Nov. 2
Father Albert Lacombe arrives at his new mission at Rat Portage.
Dec. 9
Parliament opens; details of contract made public.
Dec. 11
Tupper rallies Conservative caucus.
Dec. 13
Debate on contract opens.
Dec. 23
Christmas recess.
1881
 
Jan. 5
Parliament reconvenes.
Jan. 12
Pacific Railway bill read for first time.
Jan. 14
New tender from Howland syndicate reaches government.
Jan. 17
Macdonald’s speech in Parliament.
Jan. 18
Blake’s speech.
Jan. 27
Bill passes first reading.
Jan. 31
Bill passes second reading.
Feb. 1
Bill passes final reading.
Feb. 15
Bill passes Senate.
Feb. 16
Canadian Pacific Railway Company holds first director’s meeting.

Notes

 

From Sea to Sea
1
Islander
, Dec. 31, 1870.
2
British Colonist
, Jan. 2, 1871.
3
Globe
, Jan. 2, 1871.
4
Ibid.
, Jan. 4, 1871.
5
Southesk, p. 70.
Chapter One
1
Parliamentary Debates
, Fourth Session, 1871, Vol. 2, p. 681.
2
Ibid.
, p. 745.
3
Ibid.
, p. 681.
4
Macdonald Papers
, Vol. 252, Morris to Macdonald, April 1, 1871.
5
Boyd
, p. 307.
6
Parliamentary Debates
, 1871, p. 745.
7
British Columbia and the Canadian Pacific Railway
, Complimentary Dinner to the Hon. Mr. Trutch, Ottawa, Monday, 10th April, 1871.
8
Pope,
Correspondence
, p. 124, Macdonald to Charles Brydges, Jan. 28, 1870.
9
Quoted in Stanley,
Louis Riel
, p. 40.
10
Willson, p. 182.
11
Watkin, p. 17.
12
Pope,
Correspondence
, pp. 123-124, Brydges to Macdonald, Jan. 25, 1870.
13
Irwin, pp. 120 and 128.
14
St. Paul Press
, Feb. 8, 1870, quoted in Gluek, p. 262.
15
Johnson, p. 27. The pages of the
Patriot
during this period contain no references to Dalton’s vision.
16
Smyth.
17
Carmichael Smyth, p. 2.
18
Johnson, p. 28.
19
Carmichael Smyth, p. 3.
20
Synge,
Canada in 1848
.
21
Synge,
Great Britain
, p. 86.
22
Wilson and Richards, p. 238.
23
Ibid.
, pp. 205 and 206.
24
Ibid.
, pp. 228 and 229.
25
Ibid.
, p. 232.
26
Macdonell, p. 35.
15
4
Ibid.
, p. 3. 75
19
Irwin, p. 26.
27
Hind, et al,
Eighty Years Progress:
Keefer,
Travel and Transportation
, p. 221.
28
Ibid.
, p. 222.
29
Ibid.
, p. 227.
30
Trotter,
Canadian Federation
, pp. 88-90.
31
Johnson
, p. 30.
32
Watkin, p. 62.
33
Fleming,
Practical Observations
.
34
Ibid.
, p. 46.
35
Quoted in Smith,
Political Destiny
, p. 62.
36
Quoted in Wallace,
Growth
, p. 5.
37
Quoted in Lower, p. 296.
38
Canniff.
39
Smith,
Political Destiny
, p. 61.
40
Quoted,
ibid
, p. 62.
41
Leader
, April 28, 1870.
42
Rose,
Great Country
, p. 286.
43
Berry, p. 191.
44
Leader
, Jan. 11, 1870.
45
Smith,
Political Destiny
, p. 32.
46
Quoted in Young, Vol. 2, p. 83
n
.
47
Ibid.
, p. 81.
48
Pope,
Memoirs
, p. 43, Macdonald to Watkin, March 27, 1865.
49
Grant and Hamilton, p. 131.
50
Careless, Vol. 1, pp. 228-229.
51
Young, Vol. 2, p. 84.
52
Pope,
Correspondence
, p. 124, Macdonald to Charles Brydges, Jan. 28, 1870.
53
See Spry.
54
Palliser,
Further Papers
, p. 5, Palliser to Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, May 20, 1859.
55
Palliser,
Journals
, p. 16.
56
Palliser,
Further Papers
, p. 5.
57
Gladman, p. 164.
58
Hind,
Narrative
, p. 220.
59
Ibid.
, p. 234.
60
Ibid
.
61
Hind,
et al, Eighty years Progress
, p. 80.
62
MacGregor, p. 30.
63
Trotter and Hawkes, p. 291.
64
D’Artigue, p. 45.
65
Southesk, p. 92.
66
Luxton Papers
, Memories of Mrs. David McDougall, p. 3.
67
Wolesley,
Blackwood’s
, p. 178.
68
Butler, p. 7.
69
Ibid
.
70
Ibid
.
71
Ibid.
, p. 197.
72
Ibid
.
73
Ibid.
, pp. 200-201.
74
Ibid.
, pp. 199-200.
75
Ibid
.
76
Ibid.
, p. 351.
77
Grant and Hamilton, p. 87.
78
Ibid.
, pp. 97-98.
79
Ibid.
, p. 131.
80
Ibid.
, pp. 47-48
n
.
81
Ibid.
, p. 143.
82
Burpee, p. 147
83
Quoted in Stanley,
Birth
, p. 50.
84
Grant,
Ocean to Ocean
, p. 74.
85
Fleming Papers
, Folder 131, Grant to Fleming, Sept. 30, 1880.
86
Macoun, p. 73.
87
Ibid.
, p. 81.
88
Horetzky,
Startling Facts
, p. 4.
89
Grant, p. 344.
90
Ibid.
, p. 272.
91
Ibid.
, pp. 272-273.
92
Coffin, p. 77.
93
Butler, pp. 103-104.
94
Malhoit Manuscript
, pp. 108-109.
95
McQuarrie Papers
, Memoirs of 1882-87, p. 1.

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