You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Over the past two episodes, I have looked at the Chinese workers in British Columbia and the building of the Kicking Horse Pass portion of the railroad, but now I am going to look at building...
A few episodes back I talked about the Pacific Scandal, an incident which effectively delayed the railroad for at least five years and ended the first incarnation of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Today, I am looking at the second incarnation of the...
In this first episode of Coast to Coast I thought about beginning when the debate over a creation of a Trans-Continental Railway began but I felt that it was best to start at the very beginning, with the first railroad Canada ever had. So, today, we...