Can someone please tell me the benefits/effects that happened after the Canadian Pacific Railway was built?

Question

I already have that it united Canada, supported defence, helped trade and transportation, and developed new cities.....

please give me some other ones and please explain them

Answer 1

This same question keep popping up every so often. It must be a homework question.

Answer 2

Opened heavy industry in the west, such as lumbering in BC, coal mining in Alberta, serious grain farming on the prairies, cattle ranching, tourism, seaports on the coast, helped establish a national identity. Gave John A. MacDonald another excuse to get drunk.

Answer 3

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 farmer could sell his grain wherever the price was best, he did not have to sell it locally if the price was not fair.

Cities could be built whereever there were people wanting a city, good farm land, mining country, timber country, etc.

Formerly they had to be built along waterways for transportation.

There is nothing, absolutely nothign that could have hastened the development of wilderness faster than railroads.

Looking back, maybe it wasnt all that desirable, wilderness is one of our most priceless, and threatened commodities now.