“Rather more than four oranges for every man, woman and child in Canada or a total of 482,000 boxes of this fragrant fruit were landed at Pier “B-C” of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Vancouver in December, and were rushed through the prairie provinces and to the east of Canada for...
Canada before 1891 has been called “a huge demographic railway station” where thousands of men, women, and children were constantly going and coming, and where the number of departures invariably exceeded that of arrivals.” G By 1891 Eastern Canada had its share of both large urban centres ...
Canada before 1891 has been called “a huge demographic railway station” where thousands of men, women, and children were constantly going and coming, and where the number of departures invariably exceeded that of arrivals.”GBy 1891 Eastern Canada had its share of both large urban centres and...
Canada - Confederation, WWI, Immigration: Section 146 of the British North America Act provided for the admission of Rupert’s Land (the territory around Hudson Bay) to the new dominion. The first action of the federal government was to buy out the title