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
