University of Toronto historian Bob Bothwell calls construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) from Ontario to the Pacific Ocean from 1881 to 1885 — 3,100 kilometres of new rails to complete a national system 4,100 kilometres long — "the most important building project in Canada's history, because it secured Canada's destiny as a nation spanning the continent, Atlantic to Pacific.
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Published on March 20, 2017