Papers in Connection with the Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Between the Dominion, Imperial, and Provincial Governments (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ... was made, ) "necessarily a "condition precedent to its commencement;" while, on the other hand, the Premier, in his place in the Commons, said, on the 5th March, 1875, after reading this Settlement to the House: --"The Terms recommended by Lord Carnarvon, and which we have accepted, are "simply these: That, instead of one and a half millions, ice propose to expend two millions "a year within the Province of British Columbia, and we propose to finish the railway con"nection through the Province and downward to the point indicated by the year 1890, being "an extension of time of nine years. "With respect to the question raised by my llon"ourable friend from South Bruce, I may say that I hare nothing to ask from Parliament. "We have no authority to obtain, but merely to communicate to Parliament this decision, "and rely upon the House supporting us in accepting the Terms."--(Hansard, p. 511.) The next point in the Minute is that the agreement for an annual railway expenditure of 82,000,000 in the Province, and for the completion of the line from the Pacific to Lake Superior by 1890, "mast" bo contingent upon and subject to the conditions of tbe Resolution passed by the Commons in 1871, contemporaneously with the Terms of Union, and subsequently enacted and re-enacted in the Pacific Railway Acts of 18721874 respectively. This.Resolution, as quoted in the Minute, reads: --" The aid to be "given to Secure the accomplishment of the undertaking should consist of such liberal "grants of land, and such subsidy in money, or other aid, not increasing the then existing "rate of taxation, as the Parliament of Canada should thereafter determine." It is to be remarked that the...