- Immanuel Giulea and James McLean
When most Canadians take a minute to think about the railway development in our country and how the transcontinental rail came to be, they think of Sir John A. Macdonald. What most Canadians are unaware of is that Macdonald wasn’t behind the Canadian Pacific Railroad that linked the east coast all the way to Vancouver. It was Macdonald’s close ally, George-Étienne Cartier, who played the greatest role.
