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	Encyclopedia: Pacific Scandal
		The Pacific scandal involves the allegations of bribes being taken by Canada's Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald.
		Perhaps as a direct result of this scandal the Conservative party fell in the eyes of the public and was relegated to being the Official Opposition in the federal election of 1874, after which Alexander Mackenzie succeeded MacDonald as the new Prime Minister.
		The government was forced to resign because of the scandal, and the Conservative party was badly defeated in the ensuing elections.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pacific-Scandal (839 words)

	Canadian Pacific Scandal
		In the general elections of 1872, Sir John Macdonald was so indiscreet as to seek contributions to the funds of the Liberal-Conservative party from Sir Hugh Allan, who headed the syndicate to which had been granted the charter for building the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		In the general elections that followed, the Liberal-Conservative party was overwhelmingly defeated; but in five years' time the Canadian people either forgot the episode or changed their opinion about it, and Macdonald was returned to power by a majority as great as that by which he had been defeated in 1873.
		Sir Charles Tupper always maintained that the "Pacific Scandal" should have been known as the "Pacific Slander"; and it is possible that Macdonald's acceptance of campaign funds from Sir Hugh Allan was merely a grave indiscretion, rather than a serious moral offence.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/CanadianPacificScandal.htm (359 words)

	Pacific Scandal
		The Pacific Scandal was the result of solicitation by PM John A., George-Étienne CARTIER, and Hector LANGEVIN of some $360 000 in campaign funds for the August 1872 general election, from promoters including Sir Hugh ALLAN.
		After the election Allan was rewarded with the contract to build the Pacific railway, on the assumption that he would divest himself of American control on his board of directors.
		The Liberals broke the scandal on 2 April 1873; a spate of damaging letters and telegrams appeared in Liberal newspapers in July.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006041 (213 words)

	Canadian Pacific Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway was a task originally undertaken for a combination of reasons by the Conservative government of prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald.
		In 1872, Sir John A. Macdonald and other high-ranking politicians, swayed by bribes in the so-called Pacific Scandal, granted federal contracts to Hugh Allan's "Canada Pacific Railway Company" (which was unrelated to the current company) and to the Inter-Ocean Railway Company.
		Starting in the 20th century, the CPR used a large number of 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives and 4-6-4 Hudson locomotives, which were used both in both freight and passenger service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway (5739 words)

	Search Results for "Pacific"
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	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Pacific (260 words)

	Wikipedia: Scandal
		A scandal may be based on reality, or the product of false allegations.
		Some scandals are broken by a whistle-blower revealing wrongdoing within an organization or a group.
		Often, an attempt to cover-up a scandal ignites a greater scandal when the cover-up fails.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sc/scandal.html (97 words)

	American Experience \| Transcontinental Railroad \| Special Features
		As a general rule of financial history, fraud and scandal inevitably accompany financial manias, and what the New Economy was to the new Gilded Age the railroad was to the old.
		Although the founders of the Union Pacific were undoubtedly crooks and self-dealers who played fast and loose with government money and pocketed millions, all their chicanery did not stop them from building a railroad across the country.
		In fact, while scandals like the Crédit Mobilier were endemic during the Gilded Age (Mark Twain's novel of the same name is about little else), the railways that were built during that time transformed the U.S. economy.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/sfeature/sf_scandals.html (1584 words)

	MacKay - Canadian Editorial Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Pacific Scandal: This 1873 corruption scandal brought down the Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald and cost Canada's first prime minister the 1874 election.
		The Gerda Munsinger scandal: The guilty parties were already out of office by the time the Canadian public learned that some Progressive Conservative cabinet ministers had been consorting with an East German playgirl who may have been a KGB spy.
		The hospital document scandal: In January of 1978, Solicitor General Francis Fox was forced to resign from Pierre Trudeau's Liberal cabinet after he was found to have helped procure an abortion for a woman with whom he had had an affair.
	www.mackaycartoons.net /huh2005-05-25.html (329 words)

	Wikinfo \| Canadian Pacific Railway
		Creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway was a task originally undertaken by the Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald as an incentive for British Columbia to join the Confederation of Canada.
		As a result of this scandal, Sir John's party was removed from office with Alexander Mackenzie reigning as Prime Minister until October 16, 1878 when Sir John was returned to power.
		The renowned railway executive, Cornelius Van Horne was recruited to oversee construction with the inducement of a generous salary and the intriguing challenge of handling such a difficult railway project.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Canadian_Pacific_Railway (539 words)

	Levi O. Leonard Railroad Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Leonard, former historian of the Union Pacific and Rock Island Railways, an honorarium of eighty dollars per month for one year "for classifying, indexing, and putting into proper shape for the students of history, a collection of printed and manuscript material, documents, newspaper clippings, etc., in the possession of Mr.
		Calvin, vice-president of the Union Pacific, he wrote numerous sketches on the organization and construction of the first transcontinental which were syndicated in the newspapers of Utah, Montana, and Idaho.
		Durant, the first vice-president and general manager of the Union Pacific, and the first president of the Credit Mobilier of America, was considered to be the initial force behind the inception, organization, and construction of the transcontinental railroad.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/kolbet.htm (2872 words)

	The Dominion: The System is the Scandal
		Several federal politicians, and media commentators, claim that this is the worst government scandal Canada has ever seen (ignoring the much larger sums of money involved in the Canadian Pacific Railway scandal in the 1870s, as well as many other past scandals that had just as serious implications for the government of the day).
		More importantly, the parties and commentators are ignoring that the actual worst scandal is that all of these scandals have occurred and still, almost 138 years since Canada was established, the federal government's accountability system is not strong enough to prevent such secrecy, corruption and waste.
		As in past scandals, opposition parties and media are hot on the trail of the ruling party, loudly pointing to the evidence of scandal.
	dominionpaper.ca /opinion/2005/04/16/the_system.html (1841 words)

	The Prime Ministers of Canada - John A. Macdonald Biography
		In this famous corruption case of 1873 it was revealed that the Conservatives had given the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway to Sir Hugh Allan in exchange for massive campaign contributions.
		Although Macdonald denied any personal involvement -- "these hands are clean" -- the scandal led to his resignation and the defeat of the Conservatives in the following election.
		The history of railway construction in the 1800s is full of corruption and scandal.
	www.primeministers.ca /macdonald/bio_5.php (172 words)

	Resources - Transportation and Communication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Pacific Scandal"- Part of a series entitled, "The National Dream, Building the Impossible Railway", this 1974 film is found in the video section of the Malaspina Library.
		"Pacific Scandal" looks at the events surrounding American interests in the CPR that discredited Sir John A. MacDonald.
		The movie is not one that I would show in its entirety to a fifth grade class as the language is difficult and the plot not one that would hold their attention.
	www.mala.bc.ca /www/discover/educate/cford/natgeog.htm (355 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pacific scandal (Canadian History) - Encyclopedia
		Charges were made in Parliament that the Conservative administration of Sir John A. Macdonald had accepted campaign funds from Sir Hugh Allan in return for a promise to award Allan's syndicate the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		Macdonald's statement that the contract and the contributions were unconnected was received with skepticism.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Pacific scandal
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pacifics.html (234 words)

	CPR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The next year, however, the “Pacific Scandal” revealed that the group that was granted the charter had supplied election funds to the then Conservative government of Sir John A. Macdonald.
		By 1881 a new syndicate had received the charter along with a grant of 25 million dollars and 25 million acres of land in addition to other benefits such as the 900 miles of track already built chiefly between the Lakehead and the prairies.
		By mid-1886, regular trains were running through to the Pacific shores, thereby enabling Vancouver to emerge as the new West Coast terminus.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/28-31.htm (556 words)

	MSN Encarta - Abbott, Sir John Joseph Caldwell
		Abbott was a close associate of shipping magnate Sir Hugh Allan, one of the first promoters of the Canadian Pacific railway.
		The documents revealed Allan's contributions to the Conservative Party at a time when he was negotiating with the government for the right to build the railway.
		In 1873, in the election following the Pacific Scandal, Abbott was defeated after his opponent demanded a recount.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572670/Sir_John_Abbott.html (1301 words)

	Search Results for scandal - Encyclopædia Britannica
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		A scandal surfaced in June 1972, when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate office-apartment building in Washington.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=scandal&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (358 words)

	SONS AND DAUGHTERS: The CPR
		Understandably, one of their demands in becoming a part of Canada was that there be a more direct means of land communication with the other provinces.
		One problem was that Sir John A. Macdonald had been forced to resign in the Pacific Scandal of 1873.
		The symbolic "Last Spike" on the line through to the Pacific coast was driven at Craigellachie in Eagle Pass, British Columbia on November 7, 1885.
	www.whitepinepictures.com /seeds/i/7/sidebar.html (1231 words)

	Scandal!!
		This retired west coast political journalist has watched his province reel over the years as B.C.'s politicians and protagonists have kept people shaking their heads in disgust or disbelief.
		With the same finely honed pen he used in the acclaimed Premiers in Profile, the good, the bad and the transient Rayner now recalls outrageous dealings from the Pacific Scandal of the 1870s to Glen Clark's Pacificat Fiasco of the year 2000.
		Be it high profile stories like "Bingogate" or the lesser known Texada Island and Songhees scandals, all form a part of the B.C. legacy of gong-show politics and public misdeeds.
	www.bcbooks.com /scandal.html (214 words)

	Canadian Pacific Railway Scandal
		This report called "The Pacific Scandal," will go into detail about such headings as, The Promise of a Railway, Scandal to the Conservative Party, The Resignation of Macdonald, and The Second Macdonald Government.
		The Pacific Railway, would not be built by the government.
		Shortly after the contract was awarded to Sir Hugh Allan company to build the pacific railway, scandal struck the Macdonald government.
	www.k12.nf.ca /stmarks/grassroots/2001-02/research/railway/paper.htm (1380 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Pacific Scandal began when Sir Allan Hugh contributed large amounts of money to John A. MacDonald's campaign fund in 1872.
		In return for Hugh's contributions, the government granted Allan the contract to the head the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		This bribe was known as the Pacific Scandal.
	www.geocities.com /canadian_pacific_railway/4scandal.htm (163 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Scandal-hit Japanese politician testifies
		The scandal is having a damaging impact on the administration of Junichiro Koizumi.
		The scandal erupted at the end of January, when Mr Suzuki ordered the exclusion of two Japanese non-governmental organisations from a conference in Tokyo on the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
		But the foreign ministry scandals have convinced many Japanese that nothing has changed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1867000/1867232.stm (323 words)

	Pacific scandal on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		PACIFIC SCANDAL [Pacific scandal] 1873, a major event in Canadian political history.
		SAN DIEGO - DECEMBER 6: The Pacific Theaters building in the historic Gaslamp Quarter is shown Decemberwas quietly taken off city signs and websites after a series of scandals involving elected officials, was re-instated December 5 by newly
		The former British colonythe Imperial Japanese army, has been hit by a series of minor scandals this month involving the blatant use of Nazi imagery.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Pacifics.asp (533 words)

	McGill News -- Epilogue: The Student and the Scandal
		The Liberals, smelling a scandal, began assembling documents and a McGill law student who worked in Abbott's law office stole the telegram which was eventually produced in the House of Commons by Lucius Seth Huntingdon, the Liberal member for Stanstead.
		The resulting general election, on January 22, 1874, was fought on the issue of the "Pacific Scandal" and Macdonald and the Conservatives lost.
		Smith, who supported Macdonald in the election of 1878, backed the Canadian Pacific Railway and as an influential member of the consortium which completed the project, drove in the last spike on November 7, 1885.
	www.mcgill.ca /news/2003/fall/epilogue (872 words)

	Lord Strathcona: A Biography of Donald Alexander Smithby T.D. Regehr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As a result, his name had to be withheld when the syndicate of which he was a member negotiated to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, but in 1885 Smith was the central figure in what is perhaps Canada’s best-known photograph – the driving of the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		Remarkably, the vast collection of Canadian Pacific Railway records, other than the Van Horne letter-books, was apparently not used, nor were the large collections of federal government railway and canal records, or the huge Canadian National Railways collection available at the National Archives of Canada listed in the bibliography.
		And if, indeed, they lost confidence in Canada and the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1890s, the entire interpretation of Smith’s later career as a mirror of Canada’s passage to nationhood must be questioned, unless it is shown that he invested in other, even more lucrative Canadian ventures.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/793/lord.html (1123 words)

	Old Time Trains
		The first attempt at building a Pacific Railway began when the federal government granted charters in 1872 to two companies, Canada Pacific Railway, headed by Sir Hugh Allan, (biography) of the Allan Steamship Line and a group of Montreal financiers.
		All seemed well until it was revealed that Allan had made a generous campaign donation to the newly re-elected Sir John A. Macdonald (biography) in return for control of the railway.
		A further contract in February 1882 was for 85 miles between Yale and Port Moody to reach the Pacific.
	www.trainweb.org /oldtimetrains/pacific/canadapacific.htm (2618 words)

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