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The Crow's Nest Pass Agreement
1897
This is an original copy of the Crow's Nest Pass Agreement
signed by the Canadian government and the Canadian Pacific
Railway. Dated September 6, 1897, the railway was given
a cash subsidy of $3.3 million and title to extend a
line through the Crow's Nest Pass into the Kootenay region
of southern British Columbia where rich mineral deposits
were being developed. In return, the railway agreed,
in perpetuity, to reduced freight rates on eastbound
grain and westbound "settlers' effects." Over
time the freight rate represented an ever-smaller fraction
of the railway's costs and it was eventually cancelled
in 1993.
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