Shortly after the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was pounded into place at Craigellachie, British Columbia on November 7, 1885, the first tourists arrived to witness the immense beauty ...

At the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th, a Liberal federal government, this one led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, went railway mad. If one transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific ...

More than 15,000 Chinese came over in the early 1880s to build the most dangerous and difficult section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. One worker died for every mile of track lay through the ...