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Building The Iron Road

Building The Iron Road. By: Hannah, Chelsey, Natalie, Taylor, Reid, and Keaten. A Three-Pronged Policy. A Three-Pronged Policy. The National Policy was made to to achieve these three things. It was like three policies in one.

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Building The Iron Road

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  1. Building The Iron Road By: Hannah, Chelsey, Natalie, Taylor, Reid, and Keaten

  2. A Three-Pronged Policy

  3. A Three-Pronged Policy The National Policy was made to to achieve these three things. It was like three policies in one. • A transportation policy - to build a railway across the continent. • An immigration policy - to encourage farmers to populate Western Canada. • An economic policy - to build a strong national economy for Canadians

  4. Finding A Route In the 1870s work Transcontinental railway. By building it Canada hoped to bring British Columbia into confederation and keep the Americans out. Building the railway was a monumental task. Canada is a huge country. The second largest in the world (by land area) The railway had to cross thousands Kilometres of forested wilderness and prairie grassland.

  5. A private company built the railway in stages. It raised money from investors. The government provided grants. The work crews faced different challenges in each section of the country. On average,one kilometre of track cost half a million dollars (that’s in nineteenth century dollars!) during the heat of summer, mosquitoes and flies buzzed around the workers heads. in the winter, bitter cold- BUILDING THE LINE.

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  7. Impact on the Railway The railway had a huge impact on the development of canada.Over time it brought many new comers. They changed the face of the prairies forever.

  8. Chinese Immigrants

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