Most historians have given only incidental attention to the railway land subsidy policy of the Dominion of Canada. In breaking comparatively new ground Mr. Hedges has therefore depended to a large extent upon manuscript sources in the archives of the Department of the Interior at Ottawa. He traces the various steps leading to the adoption of the Canadian policy and discusses in detail its development in connection with the administration of th...
BUILDING THE CANADIAN WEST- THE LAND AND COLONIZATION POLICIES OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY by IAMES B. HEDGES. Originally published in 1939. PREFACE: pages which follow are the outgrowth o the author's earlier studies of the influence of the railway upon the settle ment of the Northwestern States of the United States. Those inves tigations aroused his interest in the role played by that same agency to the north of the 4gth parallel, where ...
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