The Building Of The Canadian Pacific Ocean Railroad And The Study Of It's Impact On The Development Of The Canadian Western Region

The Canadian territory is broad, the resources is abundant,but the distributions of the resources aren't equal:4/5 of the industry is in the eastern region, original material and food mainly distribute in the western region. This kind of condition is very disadvantageous to the development of the economy in Canadian. Although"the West is in the eve of the city turn, there is no a base to be called the city center or attain 1000 people's town qualifications or region usually", in Canadian Federal Fathers'eyes, the west is"the future home of thousand and million people, The huge treasure-house of the lately national resources, the market of the eastern work business, the northwest thoroughfare that leads to the Pacific Ocean and east", so Canadian Federal Fathers'hope is to develop the western region. The close neighbors– the United States also casts covetous eyes on the western region. For the sake of local economy development,boycotting the United States to extend, the Canadian federal government starts planning and prepares to develop the western region actively. The scare population and the inconvenient transportation make the development of the western region very difficult. the harsh reality,The push of the"Railroad hot"and the threat of expansion of the doctrine after American civil war urge MacDonald's government to make a firm decision that constructs a Railroad that intersects mainland in North America with western region. The Pacific Ocean Railroad set up in 1885.It changed the whole feature of the western region that fall behind ultimately, promoted Canada to develop, strengthened the function of the national defense and resisted the permeation of the United States to Canadian western region. Therefore the deep study of the function of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Railroad to the western region has the academic importance meaning, and we can certainly draw lessons from it when we develop the western region. This text elaborates the Pacific Ocean Railroad in the development of the western region from five parts.The one part, the background of building the Canadian Pacific Ocean Railroad. the United States ,the Canadian close neighbors, always want to annex Canadian western region, it threatens Canada at any moment; in 1950s, North America arise"the Transport revolution that the construction of the Railroad was took as the center".The fever of building Railroad brought about in the United States first, spreading to close neighbors Canada very quickly; In 1873, Canada established the Federal government, carrying out the dream of"from ocean to ocean". The establishment of the federal government just means Canada to unify on the politics, the economy and society didn't unified yet, it still needs to exploit all potential of the huge half mainland that had become an autonomy. For the real development of the western region, the government urge to improve the transportation of the western region; Building the Pacific Ocean Railroad is also the Canadian Federal's commitment to the Britain Columbia.The second part, China people and the building of the Pacific Ocean Railroad. The Pacific Ocean Railroad is a great of cooperative business of the government and private. When the Pacific Ocean Railroad was built, the Chinese people conflict with great universe bravely, labored hard, paid huge sacrifice and did important contribution,"if no dedication of the Chinese people, it is impossible to complete the Canadian Pacific Ocean Railroad successfully".The third part, the impact of the Pacific Ocean Railroad on the development of the western region. The Pacific Ocean Railroad not only make the dream of crossing the mainland come true, but also make Canada own unifying transportation net, from now on, the eastern region that was desolate and uninhabited and the western region of industrialization contacted, strengthening the economic contact of the east and western region, providing the condition for the industry development of east and western region; The Pacific Ocean Railroad provided essential condition build for the western emigrant and urged to increase the number of the western emigrant。With the building and extension of railroad, huge resoures that contained in the western region got development, the agriculture also got development, especially the wheat got development, Canadian steppe jumped to become a world food camalig; The Railroad also strengthen the function of the national defense, resisting the threat of the United States to Canadian western region; The isolated appearance of numerous towns also ended, the western city got a development.The four part, the building of the Pacific Ocean Railroad give our apocalypse when we develop the west. The first, effective participation of the government;The second, the reasonable lessons of constructing transportation drawing from other nation;The third, many outlets to funds ;The fourth, right programming.The fifth part, summary. Although the Pacific Ocean Railroad produced negative influence in the western region, we also want to see it's contribution to the western region and whole Canada .