[The British Columbia Provincial Museum's 1985 exhibition titled The New Highway to the Orient : The Canadian Pacific in British Columbia, 1885-1985 folder]
Return to an address of the Senate, dated 9th March, 1877; for a statement showing the quantity of land purchased for railway purposes by the government on the Kaministiquia for a terminus for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the persons from whom such purchase was made, and the amount paid therefor. Also, a copy of all correspondence between the government and the municipality of Shuniah, Prince Arthur's landing, touching the terminus of said Railway, or aid thereto
Railway Department, Montreal, 20th March, 1877. Sir, - I now beg to submit the annual report, shewing the position of the railways of the dominion of Canada, compiled from returns obtained from the different companies, in pursuance of the directions of the Minister of Public Works. The returns transmitted herewith are for the year ended 30th June, 1876, and are described as follows: - No. 1. - Summary statement of capital, mileage, &c., of opened railways. No. 2. - Summary statement of characteristics of roads and rolling stock of opened railways. No. 3.
Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 2nd April, 1877; -- for all letters, telegrams, accounts and other papers which have passed between Robert Moffatt, of Dalhousie, N. B., and the Government of the Dominion, or any of its members or officers, in respect to the transport of cargoes of rails and other railway materials from the vessels Colonist, Bessie Parker, and Stabstadt, which vessels arrived at the Port of Dalhousie in the summer of 1875; also communications with the masters of said vessels in reference to said materials, and more especially the communications between Mr. Peter Grant, District Engineer of the Intercolonial Railway, and the said Robert Moffatt; -- also, copies of the charter parties under which the said vessels carried such cargoes; -- also, copies of all contracts or agreements for the transport and delivery of the cargoes of said vessels from the port of delivery at Dalhousie to Campbellton
Report and minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into and report upon the purchase of lands at Fort William for a terminus to the Canadian Pacific Railway
First report of the Select Standing Committee on public accounts in reference to expenditure on the Canadian Pacific Railway between Fort William and Red River
Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 20th February, 1879; for copy of any order in council passed in June, 1876, locating the line of the Canada Pacific Railway between Thunder Bay and a point at or near Fort George, in British Columbia, with all correspondence between the Dominion and Columbia Government respecting the same; also for a copy of an order in council of August or September, 1878, respecting the location of the line of the Canada Pacific Railway between Yellow Head Pass and Burrard Inlet, with all correspondence between the Dominion and Provincial Governments respecting the same; and also, a copy of any special report, if any, of any engineer recommending the location of the respective lines, and on what the orders in council were directly based
Return to an order of the House of Commons dated 24th February, 1879; -- for all correspondence between the Department of Public Works and the representatives of the various railway lines in connection with the Intercolonial and with the steamship companies or their representatives, with a view of obtaining such through freight rates upon grain, etc., from the west to Halifax or European Ports as will constitute Halifax the winter shipping port of the Dominion
Return to an address of the House of Commons, dated 16th February, 1880; -- for copies of all reports made since the first day of March, 1879, respecting any portion of the route, or proposed route, of the Pacific Railway; also, reports of explorations of any portion of the country between the neighborhood of Fort Pelly and the Pacific Ocean, via the Peace River Valley or Pine River Pass, with copies of all orders in Council respecting such explorations, or the adoption of the route of the said Pacific railway, and also copies of all correspondence relating to the same; also, copies of all reports made by Captain Brundige, upon Port Simpson, and the navigation of Dixon's Entrance
Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 23rd February, 1880; -- for a statement showing the names and salaries of all persons engaged, during the year 1879, as engineers and assistants in the field, on the Canada Pacific Railway, and other employees out of the department at Ottawa; also the expenditure of supplies, and the names of the parties supplying the same, and whether procured by ordinary purchase or by tender
Return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 8th March, 1880; -- for a copy of a memorandum of location of Canada Pacific Railway, 1879, by Mr. Marcus Smith
Returns and addresses to the House of Commons relative to the surveys and appropriations of lands for the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the province of Manitoba, North-west Territory and British Columbia
Return to an address of the Senate, dated 17th February, 1882 : -- For copies of all correspondence, telegrams, petitions, papers, reports, and orders in council relating to an act of the legislature of the province of Manitoba intituled : "An Act to Incorporate the Winnipeg South-Eastern Railway Company," disallowed by His Excellency in Council, and a copy of the said act.
Resolution of the House of Commons, dated 20th February, 1882 :-- A supplementary return respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway, viz. :-- Location of Eastern Section, Current Creek to Nepigon ; and Freight Tariff, Western Division.
