Can someone please tell me the benefits/effects that happened after the Canadian Pacific Railway was built?
Well, I cant say directly about Canada, as I live in Montana but I can tell you about the “west” and I can assume much of it may apply across Canada. Families were no longer as separated and many more affluent families would consider moving west, they knew they would be able to bring much more of their nice household goods as opposed to the bare minumums in a wagon. Affluent families were able to send their children to better schools, the move was not a one time one way thing, people could get college educations and then return so there were more doctors, engineers, lawyers and teachers able to come into what was previously wilderness, this increased the rate of settlement and raised the standard of living for all. A rancher in the west would formerly have to move his cattle to market by driving them hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles, romantic as it seems it was risky and expensive. Now they could move hundreds of head via rail in a fraction of the time. After the railroad a farme
