The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Weste...
Eagle, John A.![The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/334/33454530/CHSBZCOP0333454530.jpg)
A federal cash subsidy aided CPR construction of the Crows Nest Pass Railway from Lethbridge, Alberta, to Nelson, British Columbia. The line, completed in late 1898, was designed to en-courage mining and smelting in the Kootenays and to link this region with Central Canada. This book provides an analysis of the Crows Nest Pass Agreement of 1897.