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Canadian Pacific Railway Land for Sale
Archives of Manitoba, Advertising, 66.
The CPR was initially granted a 40-mile strip of land along the railway, but that fell through when the Pacific Scandal led to the defeat of the Macdonald administration.
In the end the CPR received $25 million in cash as well as 25 million acres of prairie farmland. It was given tax exemption, in perpetuity, on company properties within the North West Territories, allowed to import construction materials duty-free, tax exemption for 20 years on all land grant properties, several hundred miles of completed track paid for by the Dominion and a 20-year monopoly on railway construction within 15 miles of the U.S. border. The federal government also guaranteed CPR loans.
* Gerald Friesen, The Canadian Prairies: A History, (University of Toronto Press, Toronto and London, 1984), p. 178.
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