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Winding up the Monopoly
Winding up the Monopoly
Archives of Manitoba, Transportation, Railway, 81

Under pressure from farmers' associations in the West, the dominion government ended the CPR monopoly in 1888. This cartoon shows them "winding it up".

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Death of the monopoly
Death of the monopoly
Archives of Manitoba, Transportation, Railway, 83.

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