On Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:43:41 AM, Roland Francis wrote: > The Canadian rail system was built on the Indian model magnified larger than > life so as to cover the enormously wider areas. Financed by Scottish bankers > and > laid by Chinese coolie labor, its mighty reach makes up for the network of > many > independent lines that colonial India laid. Every mile of track that the > Chinese > built had the blood of three of their men. Taken by tigers and animals while > working in broad daylight, they sweated and worked to a man with little pay > except the reward of making the new land their home.
Folks, I guess most of you are aware that there were railways operating in Canada long before railways started operating in India. I can, perhaps, be convinced that the Canadian railway builders would outsource, and model their railway system on the Indian one. However, I have difficulties in visualizing that the Indian model would include bringing tigers over to Canada to take away Chinese coolies (Chinese coolies, not cookies.) Tigers in Canada! Mervyn
