Macdonald was also criticized for concealing the fact that he took some money illegally to complete the railway. In 1873 as The Pacific Scandal became known, the construction of the railway suspended temporarily. The determined Macdonald and his government, obsessed by the possibility of the Americans moving in and taking over the west, boldly pushed railway construction to completion.
麦克唐纳还被指责隐瞒事实,非法挪用资金完成铁路建设。那次有名的1873年的太平洋丑闻曾使铁路建设一度停了下来。后来麦克唐纳和他的政府,由于担心美国人入侵并接管西部,坚定果断地推动完成铁路建设。
Manitoba became a province in 1870, British Columbia in 1871, Prince Edward Island in 1873, Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905. The admission of Newfoundland into Confederation in 1948 completed the Canadian Confederation of ten provinces from sea to sea, as they exist today. The railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed before the agreed deadline.
1870年马尼托巴成为一个省,1871年英属哥伦比亚加入,1873年爱德华太子岛加入,1905年艾伯塔和萨斯喀彻温加入。1949年,纽芬兰岛获准加入联邦,使拥有10个省的东岸到西岸的加拿大联邦完整起来,也就是今天的加拿大。那条铁路,即加拿大太平洋铁路在预定完工日期之前也已建成。
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