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Canadian Pacific Railway Timetable, 1892
Archives of Manitoba, Advertisin, 69.
The CPR’s freight rates were a constant source of frustration for Western farmers. In the CPR's rate schedule, published in 1883, freight rates in Western Canada were twice what they were in Ontario. The railway argued that higher rates in Western Canada were necessary to compensate for the cost of building and operating the CPR, given the low traffic volumes in the West. Prairie discontent over freight rates and the tariff remained until the Dominion government passed the Crow’s Nest Pass Freight rate agreement.
Lloyd Penner, “A History of Railroads in Manitoba” (Paper commissioned by the Transportation Heritage & Technology Centre), p. 23.
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