In March 1867, the United States had bought Alaska leaving British Columbia hemmed in by the Americans to the north and south ... Canada would build a railway to the Pacific if British Columbia ...

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

The railway is expected to slash the ... leave Brazil by sea and have to overcome the South American 'barrier' in their trip to the Pacific and Chinese ports. An overland route would shave off ...

of "The Union Pacific Railroad Company ... one hundredth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, between the south margin of the valley of the Republican River and the north margin ...